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Definitions: Mellowed |
MellowedAdjective1. Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit". 2. Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mellowed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: MellowedSynonym: mellow (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mellowed |
| English words defined with "mellowed": mellow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To quote Cicero: rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor. (The Black Hole; writing credit: Jeb Rosebrook; Bob Barbash) | |
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| "Mellowed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.62% of the time. "Mellowed" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 53.62% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 37.68% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.7% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "mellowed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | zermürbt (mellows), milderte (alleviated, moderated, softened). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 樽柿 (persimmons mellowed in a sake cask). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | たるがき (persimmons mellowed in a sake cask). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ellowedmay | ||||
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"Mellowed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Melkweg, Melwood. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mellowed" (pronounced me"lōd) |
| 4 | -e" l ō d | bellowed. |
| 3 | -l ō d | billowed, followed, furloughed, hallowed, hollowed, swallowed, wallowed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-l-m-o-w" | |
-2 letters: melled, mellow, meowed, mewled, welled. | |
-3 letters: dowel, dwell, lowed, mewed, model, mowed, wedel. | |
-4 letters: deem, dele, dell, deme, demo, dole, doll, dome, lewd, lode, lowe, meed, meld, mell, meow, mewl, mode, mold, mole, moll, owed, weed, weel, weld, well, wold. | |
-5 letters: dee, del, dew, doe, dol, dom, dow, eel, eld, ell, elm, eme, ewe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-l-m-o-w" | |
+2 letters: embowelled. | |
+5 letters: disembowelled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6C 6C 6F 77 65 64 |
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