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mellow

 
Adjective mellow has 5 senses
  1. easygoing, laid-back, mellow - unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation"
    Antonym: tense (indirect, via relaxed)
  2. mellow, mellowed - having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"
    Antonyms: green, unripe, unripened, immature (indirect, via ripe)
  3. mellow, mellowed - having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"
    Antonym: immature (indirect, via mature)
  4. mellow, mellowing - having or suggesting softness and richness in quality; "a mellow sound"; "the mellow air brought in the feel of imminent autumn"- Thomas Hardy; "a mellowing sun"
    Antonym: hard (indirect, via soft)
  5. high, mellow - slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
    Antonym: sober (indirect, via intoxicated)
Adverbial mellow has 1 sense
  1. mellowly, mellow - (obsolete) in a mellow manner
Verb mellow has 3 senses
  1. mellow - soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"
    --1 is one way to
    soften
    Derived form: noun mellowing1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. mellow, melt, mellow out - become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed"
    --2 is one way to change
    Derived form: noun mellowing1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. mellow - make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"
    --3 is one way to
    soften
    Derived form: noun mellowing1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something ----s something
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