MELLOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mellow mean?
• MELLOW (adjective)
The adjective MELLOW has 5 senses:
1. unhurried and relaxed
2. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
3. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
4. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
5. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
Familiarity information: MELLOW used as an adjective is common.
• MELLOW (verb)
The verb MELLOW has 3 senses:
1. soften, make mellow
2. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
3. make or grow (more) mellow
Familiarity information: MELLOW used as a verb is uncommon.
• MELLOW (adverb)
The adverb MELLOW has 1 sense:
1. (obsolete) in a mellow manner
Familiarity information: MELLOW used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MELLOW (adjective)
Meaning:
Unhurried and relaxed
Synonyms:
laid-back; mellow
Context example:
a mellow conversation
Similar:
relaxed (without strain or anxiety)
Meaning:
Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
Synonyms:
mellowed; mellow
Context examples:
a mellow port / mellowed fruit
Similar:
mature; ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)
Meaning:
Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
Synonyms:
mellowed; mellow
Context examples:
mellow wisdom / the peace of mellow age
Similar:
mature (characteristic of maturity)
Meaning:
Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
Context examples:
mellow wisdom / the peace of mellow age
Similar:
soft (compassionate and kind; conciliatory)
Meaning:
Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
Synonyms:
mellow; high
Similar:
drunk; inebriated; intoxicated (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
• MELLOW (verb)
Meaning:
Soften, make mellow
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Age and experience mellowed him over the years
Hypernyms (to "mellow" is one way to...):
soften (make soft or softer)
Cause:
mellow (make or grow (more) mellow)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
mellow out; mellow; melt
Context example:
With age, he mellowed
Hypernyms (to "mellow" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Make or grow (more) mellow
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context examples:
These apples need to mellow a bit more / The sun mellowed the fruit
Hypernyms (to "mellow" is one way to...):
soften (become soft or softer)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
• MELLOW (adverb)
Meaning:
(obsolete) in a mellow manner
Synonyms:
mellow; mellowly
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
