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mild

[mahyld] adjective, -er, -est, noun
–adjective
1. amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
2. characterized by or showing such gentleness, as manners or speech: a mild voice.
3. not cold, severe, or extreme, as air or weather: mild breezes.
4. not sharp, pungent, or strong: a mild flavor.
5. not acute or serious, as disease: a mild case of flu.
6. gentle or moderate in force or effect: mild penalties.
7. soft; pleasant: mild sunshine.
8. moderate in intensity, degree, or character: mild regret.
9. British Dialect. comparatively soft and easily worked, as soil, wood, or stone.
10. Obsolete. kind or gracious.
–noun
11. British. beer that has a blander taste than bitter.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE milde; c. G mild; akin to Gk malthakós soft


mildly, adverb
mildness, noun


1. soft, pleasant. See gentle. 3. temperate, moderate, clement. 4. bland.


1. forceful. 3. severe. 6. harsh.
mild   (mīld)   
adj.   mild·er, mild·est
  1. Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
    1. Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force: a mild pipe tobacco; a mild sedative.
    2. Not extreme: a mild winter storm.
    3. Warm and full of sunshine; pleasant: a mild spring day; mild weather in June.
  2. Not severe or acute: a mild fever.
  3. Easily molded, shaped, or worked; malleable: mild steel.
intr.v.   mild·ed, mild·ing, milds
Texas & Virginia To diminish or decrease. Used of the wind or a storm. See Regional Note at fair1.

[Middle English, from Old English milde; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
mild'ly adv., mild'ness n.

Mild

Mild\, a. [Compar. Milder; superl. Mildest.] [AS. milde; akin to OS. mildi, D. & G. mild, OHG. milti, Icel. mildr, Sw. & Dan. mild, Goth. milds; cf. Lith. melas dear, Gr. ? gladdening gifts.] Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. --Waller.

Adore him as a mild and merciful Being. --Rogers.

Mild, or Low, steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened.

Syn: Soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant; placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement; mollifying; lenitive; assuasive. See Gentle.
Language Translation for : mild
Spanish: apacible, afable, dulce,
German: sanft,
Japanese: 温厚な

mild 
O.E. milde "gentle, merciful," from P.Gmc. *milthjaz- (cf. O.N. mildr, O.Fris. milde, Du. mild, O.H.G. milti, Ger. milde "mild," Goth. mildiþa "kindness"), from PIE base *meld-/*mld- "softness" (cf. Gk. malthon "weakling," O.Ir. meldach "tender," Skt. mrdh "to neglect," also "to be moist"). Related to melt. Originally of persons and powers; of the weather from c.1400, of disease from 1744. Phrase to put it mildly is attested from 1929.

Main Entry: mild
Pronunciation: 'mI(&)ld
Function: adjective
1 : moderate in action or effect mild drug>
2 : not severe
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