Synonyms for sugar
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Honey — A term of endearment
honey, sweets, cabbage, baby, babby US, saccharine, heart, sweetheart, love, sweetie pie, doll, sweetie, precious, dear, babe, pet, darling, buttercup, duck, hon, jewel, lambkin, snookums informal
2. Bread
bread, dough, lolly AU NZ, kale, gelt, moolah, scratch, lettuce, dinero, loot, wampum, lucre, bootle, simoleons slang, pelf rare
3. Sorghum
Other
Verb
1. Sweeten — to make (something unpleasant) seem less so
Other
shoot, saccharify rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A term of endearment.
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
- n. 2
A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
- n. 3
Any specific variety of sugar.
- v. 1
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
Related words
Example sentences
- heart The frightened boy's heart palpitated with terror.
- honey I like to spread honey on my toast in the morning.
- sweets She is denying herself sweets because of her diet.
- bread A loaf of bread is better than the songs of birds.
- dough Tom's been kneading the dough for fifteen minutes.
By length
- 3 letters
- pet1, hon1
- 4 letters
- love1, baby2, dear1, duck1, doll1, babe1, loot1, kale1, gelt, pelf
- 5 letters
- heart1, shoot1, bread1, honey2, dough1, jewel2, lolly2, babby, lucre
- 6 letters
- sweets1, moolah, dinero, bootle, wampum2
- 7 letters
- scratch1, darling2, sweetie2, lettuce2, cabbage2, sorghum2, sweeten2, lambkin
- 8 letters
- precious2, snookums
- 9 letters
- buttercup3, simoleons
- 10 letters
- sweetheart2, saccharine3, saccharide, saccharify
- 12 letters
- carbohydrate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (baby2 = 2 syllables).