Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture†, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai†, sorghum, taffy. nectar; hydromel†, mead, meade†, metheglin†, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif. [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets. [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298. dulcification†, dulcoration†. sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low. V. be sweet &c adj.. render sweet &c adj.; sweeten; edulcorate†; dulcorate†, dulcify†; candy; mull. Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous†; dulcet, candied, honied†, luscious, lush, nectarious†, melliferous†; sweetened &c v.. sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey. sickly sweet. Phr. eau sucrée [Fr.]; sweets to the sweet [Hamlet].