mellow

Plural: mellows

Verb

Verb Forms: mellowed, mellowing, mellows

• To make or become soft, ripe, or pleasantly smooth.
• soften, make mellow
  • "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"
• become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
  • "With age, he mellowed"
• make or grow (more) mellow
  • "These apples need to mellow a bit more"
  • "The sun mellowed the fruit"
• To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
• To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
• To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
• To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
• To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
• To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
• Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
• To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
• To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
• To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
• To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.

Adjective Satellite

• unhurried and relaxed
  • "a mellow conversation"
• having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
  • "a mellow port"
  • "mellowed fruit"
• having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
  • "mellow wisdom"
  • "the peace of mellow age"
• having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
  • "mellow wisdom"
  • "the peace of mellow age"
• slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)

Adverb

• (obsolete) in a mellow manner

Adj

• Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
• Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
• Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
• Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
• Fruitful and warm.
• Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
• Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
• Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
• Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
• Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed.
• Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
• Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
• Senses relating to a person or their qualities.
• Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
• Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.

Noun

• The property of being mellow; mellowness.
• A comfortable or relaxed mood.
• Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.

Adjective

• Soft, ripe, and full-flavored; pleasantly smooth.

Examples

• A good Scrabble game can truly MELLOW an otherwise stressful day, unless you lose badly.
• a mellow apple
• After a MELLOW evening of Words With Friends, he felt content with his modest score.
• The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.

Synonyms

high, laid-back, mellow out, mellowed, mellowly, melt, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, airy, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, at ease, baked, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, berserk, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blazed, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blissed out, blithe, blithesome, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, bonnie, boozy, bosky, bottled, bright, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, buoyant, burlin', calm, canned, carefree, careless, casual, cheerful, cheerly, cheery, chemically impaired, chill, chopped, chuffed, clobbered, cock-a-hoop, cocked, cockeyed, collected, composed, content, contented, convivial, cool, cool-headed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cushiony, cut, dead drunk, delighted, destroyed, devil-may-care, disguised, drugged, drugged-out, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, easy-breezy, easygoing, ebriated, ebriose, ebullient, ecstatic, elated, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, equable, equanimitable, equanimous, euphoric, even-keeled, even-minded, even-tempered, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, faced, fap, fat and happy, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gay, gayful, gee-eyed, geeked, gesuip, ginned, gished, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, glorious, groggified, groggy, grounded, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, happy, happy as Larry, happy as a clam, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a lark, happy as a pig in mud, happy as a pig in shit, happy as a prince, happy as the day is long, happy-go-lucky, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, hearty, hepped up, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high on life, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hopped up, hosed, how came you so, impaired, imperturbable, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, indifferent, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, insouciant, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, jovial, joyful, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, leisurely, level-headed, lifted, lighthearted, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, malleable, mashed, maudlin, medicated, mellow, mellowish, mellowy, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, messed up, mirthsome, moldable, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, nonchalant, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on cloud nine, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, over the moon, overcome, overjoyed, overjoyous, overrefreshed, overtaken, pacate, pacific, paralytic, parlatic, peaceable, peaceful, perky, phlegmatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, placated, placid, plastered, pleased, pliable, ploughed, plowed, pococurante, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quiescent, quiet, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, reefed, relaxed, ripe, ripped, rolling, roolie, rubbered, sanguine, satisfied, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sedate, serene, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soft, solute, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spaced-out, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, still, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, tender, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, thrilled, throwed, tickled pink, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, tranquil, trashed, triumphant, trolleyed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, unexcited, unfazed, unflappable, unflustered, unperturbable, unruffable, unruffled, untumultuous, unworried, up there, vivacious, wanton, wasted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, wealful, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whacked, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, yielding, zate, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

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