honeyed

English

Alternative forms

• honied

Etymology

From Middle English honyed; equivalent to honey +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌnid/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

honeyed (comparative more honeyed, superlative most honeyed)

1. Sweetened, with, or as if with, honey.
   • 1964 July, “News and Comment: Dr. B. beards Scots in their lair”, in Modern Railways, page 15:

     There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May.

2. Sugary, syrupy.
3. Dulcet or mellifluous.

Derived terms

• honeyedly
• honeyedness
• unhoneyed

Translations

containing honey

• Arabic: مَعْسُول (maʕsūl)
• Catalan: melat
• Esperanto: miela
• French: miellé (fr)
• Greek: μελένιος (el) (melénios)
• Italian: melato (it) m, mieloso (it)
• Latin: mellītus
• Macedonian: сла́док (sládok)
• Turkish: ballı (tr)

sugary

• Catalan: melós
• German: honigsüß (de)
• Greek: μελένιος (el) (melénios)
• Italian: melato (it) m
• Macedonian: сла́док (sládok), ше́ќерен (šéḱeren)

Verb

honeyed

1. simple past and past participle of honey

References

• “honeyed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.