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mellow
[ mel-oh ]
adjective
- soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- well-matured, as wines.
- soft and rich, as sound, tones, color, or light.
Antonyms: harsh
- made gentle and compassionate by age or maturity; softened.
- friable or loamy, as soil.
- mildly and pleasantly intoxicated or high.
- pleasantly agreeable; free from tension, discord, etc.:
a mellow neighborhood.
- affably relaxed; easygoing; genial:
a mellow teacher who is very popular with her students.
noun
- Slang. a state, atmosphere, or mood of ease and gentle relaxation.
verb phrase
- Slang.
- to become detached from worry, strife, stress, etc.; relax:
After final exams let's go down to the beach and mellow out.
- to make more relaxed, agreeable, workable, etc.; soften or smooth:
Chopin really mellows me out when I'm feeling tense.
mellow
/ ˈmɛləʊ /
adjective
- (esp of fruits) full-flavoured; sweet; ripe
- (esp of wines) well-matured
- (esp of colours or sounds) soft or rich
- kind-hearted, esp through maturity or old age
- genial, as through the effects of alcohol
- (of soil) soft and loamy
verb
- to make or become mellow; soften; mature
- foll by out to become calm and relaxed or (esp of a drug) to have a calming or relaxing effect on (someone)
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Derived Forms
- ˈmellowness, noun
- ˈmellowly, adverb
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Other Words From
- mellow·ly adverb
- mellow·ness noun
- over·mellow adjective
- over·mellow·ly adverb
- over·mellow·ness noun
- un·mellow adjective
- un·mellowed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mellow1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mellow1
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Example Sentences
The following bright and mellow Monday, Uriguen cradles the new child.
Muhammad Ali in Excelsis by Peter Richmond from GQ, April 1998 He is in mellow middle age now.
His first wife, Sarah Loewen, recalled him as being “mellow.”
As his longtime friend Bishop Desmond Tutu once told Sky News, “he needed that time in prison to mellow.”
Can you put "mellow" on the label, or just give the chemical content?
The day was perfect; as clear and bright, as mellow and crisp, as rich in colour, as only an October day in England can be.
The warmest land is chosen—mellow and free from stones or shaded by trees and prepared as if for a garden.
The flavor is rich and mellow; a little more oily than Havana leaf.
The moon rose majestically above the distant trees; her full, round, and yellow orb cast a mellow light upon our group.
On this sweet lawn the inmates and guests walked for sun and mellow air, and often played bowls at eventide.
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