mellow

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mellow

After a long day, he felt mellow and content sitting in his favorite armchair.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Pleasantly smooth, rich, or soft: Used to describe flavors, sounds, colors, or textures that are not harsh, sharp, or bright, but are deep, full, and agreeable.
    • Relaxed and good-natured: Describes a person, mood, or atmosphere that is calm, pleasant, and without tension.
    • Mature and softened by experience: Describes a person or their qualities that have become wiser, kinder, or less severe over time.

  2. Verb:

    • To become or make something mellow: The process of becoming softer, richer, more relaxed, or more mature. This can apply to flavors, sounds, people, or their personalities.
Examples of Usage

  • Adjective:

    • The cheese had a mellow flavor after years of aging.
    • We spent a mellow evening listening to jazz.
    • His mellow attitude made him easy to work with.
    • The painter used mellow tones of yellow and brown.

  • Verb:

    • The fruit will mellow if you leave it on the counter for a few days.
    • He has mellowed a lot since he retired and is much less strict.
Advanced Usage
  • "to mellow out": (informal phrasal verb) To become relaxed or calm.
    • After a stressful week, I just want to mellow out at home.
Variants and Related Words
  • Mellowly (adverb): In a mellow manner.
    • The music played mellowly in the background.
  • Mellowness (noun): The quality of being mellow.
    • The mellowness of the old wine was remarkable.
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Smooth, ripe, soft, gentle, relaxed, laid-back, genial.
  • Verb: Soften, mature, ripen, relax, tone down.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Mellow out: (See "Advanced Usage" above).
Related Idioms
  • (As) mellow as an old violin: Very relaxed and easygoing.
    • Since his grandchildren were born, he's been as mellow as an old violin.
mellow

After a long day, he felt mellow and content sitting in his favorite armchair.

Adjective
  1. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
  2. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
    • mellow wisdom
    • the peace of mellow age
  3. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
    • mellow wisdom
    • the peace of mellow age
  4. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
    • a mellow port
    • mellowed fruit
  5. unhurried and relaxed
    • a mellow conversation
Adverb
  1. (obsolete) in a mellow manner
Verb
  1. make or grow (more) mellow
    • These apples need to mellow a bit more
    • The sun mellowed the fruit
  2. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
    • With age, he mellowed
  3. soften, make mellow
    • Age and experience mellowed him over the years

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