Synonyms of sweetmeat

sweetmeat

noun

ˈswēt-ˌmēt 

as in confection

a food having a high sugar content

16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• confection
• candy
• dessert
• sweet
• confectionery
• confectionary
• pastry
• sweeties
• entremets
• afters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sweetmeat

Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish. — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025

But street food vendors — with their pungent salads, oodles of noodles, and coconut sweetmeats — have lately become the target of some of the capital’s planners. — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019

So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019

In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank. — Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018