Dry and Sweet

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Dry

Dry adjective - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation.
Usage example: a dry Bordeaux
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Sweet is an antonym for dry in sarcastic topic.
Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Sweet

Sweet adjective - Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar.
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Dry is an antonym for sweet.
Nearby Words: sweeten, sweetness, sweetly, sweetie, sweetening
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little little dry little sweet

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  • Neither should be confused with "desert" (noun: something deserved), spelled like the dry area but pronounced like the sweet, and seen mainly in the phrase "just deserts."
    Source: The Big List of Booboos and Blunders
  • Hypocritical Humor: Wilkie: Tonight I decided to dine relatively lightly and ordered two types of pate, soup, some sweet lobsters, a bottle of dry champagne, a leg of mutton stuffed with oysters and minced onions, two orders of asparagus, some braised beef, a bit of dressed crab, and a side of eggs.
    Source: Literature / Drood
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