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Mild

Definition: Mild

Mild

Adjective

1. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism".

2. Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing".

3. Mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Mild beer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mild is generally a dark beer developed in the mid-nineteenth century as a cheaper and sweeter alternative to the dark ales and porters present at the time. For this reason mild was the most popular draught beer of this period. It should not be confused with small beer, an entirely different product. Once commonly found on tap, the length and breadth of Britain, mild has now almost completely disappeared from British pubs, although it has a strongholdin the English Midlands.

Common mild ales

External Links

Timothy Taylor Brewery

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mild beer."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Mild

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MILD

EnglishMnemonic induction of lucid dreamingMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Mild

Synonyms: balmy (adj), meek (adj), modest (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: intense (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mild

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Adolescence

Verb: come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats.

Courtesy

Ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly.

Excitability

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Heat

Adjective: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Lenity

Adjective: lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent, easy-going; clement; (compassionate); forbearing; long-suffering.

Moderation

Mild as mother's milk; milk and water.

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mild

Specialty definitions using "mild": Acetamides, acustimulation, alpha-Thalassemia, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, armor wire, armour wireB.M.A.G.A. apparatus, Bernstein Test, bottom splash, Bromisovalum, BULLY TRAP, butt-welded tubecarried wet, Chaonian Bird, chillies, Color Vision Defects, Conjunctivitis, Viral, Crack a Bottle, Cyclic IMPDeafness, Sudden, d'Huart reagent, double skin, Duet, Durandarte, DysgeusiaEditor, Encephalitis, Varicella Zoster, Enteroviruses, Porcine, Ergoloid Mesylates, Eye Infections, ParasiticFISH ROE PROCESSOR, Fog-eater, Foot-loggas carburizing, glork, Gog and Magog, grass bleachHand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Hemoglobin C Disease, high-altitude pulmonary edema, high-tensile steel, hypomaniaInfluenzavirus C, ingot shellLactulose, lightning ring, limb, Loiasis, Ludwig's AnginaMarry Come Up!, Mucopolysaccharidosis II, Mucopolysaccharidosis III, munchkinnail gun, non-narcotic analgesicoverstrain agingpaprica, Paraparesis, Spastic, Plant Poisoning, pulp separatorquench ageingRats, Inbred OLETF, RESTORER, CERAMIC, RESTORER, PAPER-AND-PRINTS, Retinal Necrosis Syndrome, AcuteSalmonella paratyphi A, Sea-Blue Histiocyte Syndrome, shelf angle, So, Sonne dysentery, Sonne-Kruse dysentery, staphylo-angina, Stars and Garters!, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, strain ageing, stud gun, Such, sweet aniseTriamtereneVerdant GreenXamoterol. (references)
Etymologies containing "mild": Spleenless. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Mild" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (gentle, mild), Dutch (gentle, mild), German (balmy, benevolent, benign, bland, Clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly), Norwegian (balmy, genial, lenient), Swedish (bland, charitable, Clement, delicate, easy, genial, gentle, kind, lamblike, lenient, mild, soft).

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Modern Usage: Mild

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The one shaped like a bunny escaped with a mild decapitation (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Movie/TV Titles

The Mild West (1947)

Mild Cargo (1934)

The Mild West (1933)

Howard the Mild Colonial Boy (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mild

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mild Head Injury (reference)

  • Mild Head Injury: A Guide to Management (reference)

  • Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Therapy and Resource Manual (reference)

  • Teaching Learners With Mild Disabilities: Integrating Research and Practice (reference)

  • Teaching Students With Mild Disabilities at the Secondary Level (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

  • DeWalt DW4810 4" 18 TPI Straight Back Bi-Metal Reciprocating Saw Blade, Mild Steel Cuts (5-Pack) (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mild

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Mild

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Photomicrograph of mild meningitis along with hemorrhage and the presence of Bacillus anthracis in a case of fatal human anthrax. Credit: CDC.

Mild cases and asymptomatic cholera infections. Credit: CDC.

A patient with typical "nickel and dime" lesions on the face, which can develop during secondary syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, patchy hair loss, and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

This patient developed eyebrow alopecia during the secondary stage of syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

Long Term Visitor Area (LTVA) campers enjoying the mild winter in the Yuma area. Credit: Lori Cook.

Straining mild on the McNally farm. Kirby, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Transferring mild from tank cars to truck. Jersey City, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Treating a cow for mild fever. Fremont County Bull Association. Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Mild
 

"Gray Lots 1" by Kelly Abbott
Commentary: "Little blurring grayness with a building a tree and some mild mannerisms."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Mild".

PlayCaption
Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Mild

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

His countenance, in this repose, was mild and kindly

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

But it was very mild, and veiled in an ineffable twilight

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The air was soft and grey and mild and evening was coming

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Then, God grant me to Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed! O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Not even a lark or an oriole, those mild plantation birds, ever visited my clearing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mild

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Use a mild shampoo. (references)

GVHD can be mild or very severe. (references)

A mild laxative may also be helpful. (references)

Civil Liberties

Eritrea

Nonetheless, criticism tended to be limited and fairly mild, and the media practiced a great deal of self-censorship. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Citizens appear willing to speak their minds, and the Government allows mild criticism of infrastructure, public institutions, and public sector mismanagement and permitted some increased criticism of minor administrative decisions; however, it permits no criticism of the President or the security forces. (references)

Economic History

Angola

Summers are hot and dry, while winters are mild. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Police commonly failed to act on complaints of police brutality, and punishments that were handed down were usually mild and often done only under pressure from the IPTF or other international monitors. (references)

Travel

Jordan

The climate is Mediterranean, relatively mild and very favorable compared to the Gulf region and North Africa. (references)

Mexico

Upon arrival in Mexico City, the sensation of increased respiration, rapid heart rate, and mild dizziness are normal adaptive processes. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Mild

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825Our revenue under the mild system of impost and tonnage continues to be adequate to all the purposes of the Government.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Mild

"Mild" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.38% of the time. "Mild" is used about 1,451 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.38%1,4425,601
Noun (singular)0.48%7133,076
Noun (proper)0.14%2245,945
                    Total100.00%1,451N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Mild

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mild".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ClementN/ABiblical

Mild

KlimentN/ACzech

Mild

KlemensN/ADanish

Mild

ClemN/AEnglish

Mild

ClémenceN/AFrench

Mild

ClémentN/AFrench

Mild

ClementineN/AFrench

Mild

ClemensN/AGerman

Mild

KlemensN/AGerman

Mild

KelemenN/AHungarian

Mild

ClementeN/AItalian

Mild

ClementinaN/AItalian

Mild

KlemensN/APolish

Mild

KlementynaN/APolish

Mild

ClementinaN/APortuguese

Mild

KlimentN/ARussian

Mild

KlemenN/ASlovene

Mild

ClementeN/ASpanish

Mild

ClementinaN/ASpanish

Mild

KlemensN/ASwedish

Mild

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Mild

Expressions using "mild": a mild temper as mild as a dove become mild draw it mild have sown one's mild oats meek and mild mild as mother's milk mild beer mild cigarette mild criticism mild humus mild mull mild silver protein mild soap mild steel mild steel bar mild weather our Lady's mild thistle. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "mild": mild-cured, mild-eyed, mild-frost-hardy, mild-looking, mild-mannered, mild-manneredness, mild-natured, mild-scented, mild-seeming, mild-steel, mild-tempered.

Ending with "mild": none-too-mild, short-and-mild.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mild

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

black and mild

66

mild concussion

10

mild dysplasia

46

mild retardation

10

mild

32

mild cerebral palsy

10

mild dysplesia

30

mild surfactants

10

mild steel

28

mild stroke symptom

10

mild seven

26

conditioning kiehls mild shampoo

10

mild autism

26

acrylic detergent lukewarm mild soap wash

8

mild mental retardation

25

conditioning mild shampoo

8

black mild cigar

23

mild steel tubing

7

mild depression

22

black n mild

7

mild traumatic brain injury

21

mild steel properties

7

mild stroke

18

design mild site web wild

6

mild silver protein

16

mild cigar

6

mild cognitive impairment

15

attack heart mild symptom

6

mild heart attack

14

mild salsa recipe

6

mild wild

14

anemia mild

5

heaven mild

13

mild brain injury

5

mild cervical dysplasia

12

mild mitral regurgitation

5

mild soap

11

bladder mild

5

displasia mild

11

bondage mild

5
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Modern Translation: Mild

Language Translations for "mild"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zemërbutë (benignant, forgiving, soft-hearted), jo i mprehtë (dull, grave), i urtë (acquiescent, canny, compliant, docile, ductile, meek, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise), i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, unruffled), i ngadalshëm (plodding, slow, tardy), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متسامح (broad minded, fond, forbearing, forgiving, indulgent, large minded, lenient, liberal, merciful, permissive, soft, tolerant), ‏معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏غير قوي, ‏دمث (affable, courteous, gentle, mannerly, pleasant, suave). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

умерен (abstemious, abstinent, conservative, equable, frugal, gentle, medium, mezzo, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, slack, sober, sparing, temperate, tempered), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), кротък (dovelike, meek, mousey, placid, quiet), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), благ (avuncular, benign, benignant, charitable, dovelike, gentle, good tempered, gracious, kindly, suave, sweet). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(harmonious, melt), 温和 (Blandness, gentleness, temperate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), mìkký (balmy, fresh, gentle, mellow, silky, soft, squashy, tender), vlídný (affable, amiable, approachable, benign, cordial, courteous, genial, good, gracious, hospitable, kindly, sweet, sweet-tempered), přívìtivý (affable, amiable, friendly, well spoken). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mild (gentle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zachtmoedig (gentle), zachtaardig (gentle), zacht (gentle, soft, sweet, tender), mild (gentle). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

milda (gentle). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

mildur (gentle, serene, soft, sweet, tender, untroubled), lagaligur (gentle, practical), blíður (affable, friendly, gentle, good-natured, kind, obliging). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Meek, Mellow, Merciful, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), معتدل (Green, Medium, Middleman, Moderate, Modest, Sane, Sober), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lempeä (gentle, sweet). (various references)

   

French

  

doux. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

myld (gentle). (various references)

   

German

  

sanft (bland, blandly, calm, caressing, delicate, gentle, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, soft, softly, suave, undulating), mild (balmy, benevolent, benign, bland, Clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mildly, moderate, placid, softly), leicht (easily, easy, effortless, effortlessly, facile, facilely, gentle, gossamerly, light, lighthearted, lightly, lightweight, loose, lower-level, mildly, minor, nimbly, petty, readily, simple, slight, slightly, smooth, softly, sprightly, thinly, unsubstantial). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μειλίχιοσ (bland), μαλακόσ (compliant, crumby, malleable, meek, mellow, quaggy, smooth, soft, softy, squashy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), πράοσ (benign, biddable, bland, gentle, meek, placid, quiet), πράος (gentle, meek), εύκρατοσ (temperate), ήπιοσ (bland, Clement, gentle), ήπιος (benign, gentle, gentle to). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מתון (aggradation, cautious, considerate, easygoing, gentle, gradualness, mellow, moderate, moderation, restrained, slow down, slowness, staid, temperate), לא חריף, פיסני (conciliatory, placative), עדין (as yet, dainty, delicate, elegant, fine, gentle, gracious, noble, not yet, slender, soft, still, subtle, tender, yet), ענוג (delicate, delight, effeminate, enjoyment, fine, joy, pleasure, tender), רתוי (gentle, indulgent, leniency, lenient, mildness, resignation, withdrawal), נוח (affable, calm, comfortable, convenient, cushy, easy, easygoing, fair, favourable, genial, good natured, propitious, rest, snug, soft). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

enyhe (benign, bland, clement, easy, faint, genial, gentle, lenient, light, slight, soft). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

mjúkur (gentle). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mendingan (better than), sejuk (balmy, cool), ringan (bright, buoyant), enteng (easy, light, lightly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mite (bland, genial, gentle, lenient, meek, moderate, reasonable, temperate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

温かい (genial, warm). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おんわ (gentle, moderate), マイルド , なごやか (calm, gentle, harmonious, quiet), まろやか (circular, round, spherical), あたたかい (genial, warm), ものやわらか (gentle, mild-mannered). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

온화한 (Bland, temperate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhune millish (mild beer), geurey bog (green winter, mild winter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ildmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douce, downy, dulcet, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, meek, mellifluent, mellifluous, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender), brando (bland, dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flaccid, gentle, lenient, light, lithe, meek, mellow, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, tender). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

moderat (abstemious, gentle, moderate, moderately, rational, reasonable, steady, temperate), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), senin (azure, broad, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, peace, serene, serenity, shiny, tranquil, unclouded, unruffled), prietenos (amicable, blandly, cheerful, clubby, companionable, cordial, friendly, kind, kindly, Matey, mellow, mildly, nice, pally, sweet), odihnitor (appeasing, composing, grateful, recreating, relaxing, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, soothing), nepiperat, necondimentat (flavorless, flavourless, unseasoned), temperat (moderate, restrained, temperate, temperately), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), lin (flowing, gentle, quiet, slowly, smooth, smoothly, soft, sweet, tench), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), domol (don't hurry, gently, gradually, leisurely, not so fast, quiet, slow, slowly, softly), cumpãtat (abstemious, abstinent, measured, moderate, reserved, sober, temperate, thrifty, well balanced), blajin (benign, easy-tempered, gentle, good natured, good tempered, meek, mildly, placable, sweet), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

macanta (gentle, meek), tlàth (gentle, indulgent, smooth to the touch), socair (at your ease, comfort : air do shocair, ease, gentle, quiet, rest, steady, take), sèimh (peaceful, placid, still, tranquil), sèamh, fòil (gentle, slow, stately; calm, tranquil), coibhneil (lenient), ciùin (peaceful, placid, smooth, vn. become quiet; become calm), ceanalta (amiable, kind), caomhail (affectionate, kind), caoin (dry, kind, lament, the exterior surface of cloth, weep). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

blag (benign, bland, clement, genial, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, melting, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suave (balmy, dulcet, genial, gentle, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subdued, supple, sweet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mild (bland, charitable, clement, delicate, easy, genial, gentle, kind, lamblike, lenient, soft), blid (advantageous, bland, favourable, gentle, placid, sentle, soft), lindrig (light, minor, slight). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อ่อนโยน (kind, kindly, soft, suave, svelte, tender), อ่อนนุ่ม (soft, tender). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), aheste (gentle, slow), ılımlı (Clement, equable, genial, hospitable, low key, middle-of-the-road, moderate, modest, temperate), ılıman (Clement, equable, moderate, soft, temperate). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

myssyk (faded, soft), tultuk (gentle, soft). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

слухняний (amenable, biddable, conformable, docile, dutiful, governable, kind, obedient, obediential, obeisant, obsequious, passive, toward, tractable), теплий (open armed, thermal, warm), м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, genial, gentle, kindly, limp, melodious, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding), помірний (abstemious, frugal, measurable, medium, modest, sparing, temperate, tepid), поблажливий (easy, forgiving, gracious, indulgent, large-hearted, lenient, permissive). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

yếu (feeble, strengthless, weak, weakly), thuốc lá (canister, indian weed, stub), nhu nhược (gutless, mildly, remiss, sinewless, slack, wak-hearted), nhẹ êm dịu, không gắt, hoà nhã (mildly), hãy ôn hoà!, ôn hoà ôn hoà. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

mwyn (benign, bland, dear, gentle, kind, mineral, ore, sake), llariaidd (gentle, meek), claear (cool, lukewarm, tepid), addfwyn (gentle, meek). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mild

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

benigna, benignas, benigne, benigni, benignos, benignum, benignus, blandus, clemens, clemente, clementes, clementia, clementibus, clementis, lenes, lenia, lenis, mansueti, mansuetis, mansuetorum, mansuetos, mansuetum, mansuetus, mites, mitibus, mitis, mitissimus, mitius, modesta, modeste, modesti, modestis, modestos, modestum, mollem, molles, mollibus, mollis, placidam, summissus (from summitto). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mild

Derivations

Words beginning with "mild": milden, mildened, mildening, mildens, milder, mildest, mildew, mildewed, mildewing, mildews, mildewy, mildly, mildness, mildnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "mild": overmild. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameld, amild, dild, eild, ild, imd, iml, jild, Madl, mald, Mealda, melf, Melyd, Mfid, mhil, midla, mied, Milad, Milc, milde, mildi, mildr, milds, milf, Miln, milo, Milp, milq, milz, mird, miud, mixd, mld, Mlib, moldo, muld, mu'lud, myd, myl, Myln, Myod. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mild"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mild" (pronounced mī"ld)
4m ī" l dsmiled.
3-ī" l dbeguiled, child, compiled, filed, piled, refiled, restyled, reviled, riled, styled, tiled, wild.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mild

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-l-m"

-1 letter: dim, lid, mid, mil.

-2 letters: id, li, mi.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-l-m"
 

+1 letter: dimly, limed.

 

+2 letters: amidol, delime, dimple, dimply, dismal, filmed, glimed, limbed, limned, limped, limpid, mailed, medial, meloid, middle, midleg, miladi, milady, milden, milder, mildew, mildly, milked, milled, milord, milted, misled, moduli, moiled, slimed, smiled.

 

+3 letters: admiral, alodium, amidols, amyloid, bimodal, claimed, climbed, decimal, declaim, delimed, delimes, delimit, dilemma, dimpled, dimples, diploma, dishelm, dislimn, dismals, domical, domicil, doomily, drumlin, dualism, dumpily, emailed, filmdom, halidom, humidly, idolism, illumed, impaled, implead, implied, implode, limeade, limited, mandril, matilda, maudlin, medials, medical, melding, melodia, melodic, meloids, miauled, midcult, middled, middler, middles, midland, midlegs, midlife, midline, midsole, miladis, mildens, mildest, mildews, mildewy, milldam, milords, mindful, mingled, misdeal, misdial, mislaid, mislead, mispled, mizzled, modioli, moldier, molding, moodily, muddily, mudsill, myeloid, pimpled, plasmid, rimland, rimpled, slimmed, timidly, tumidly, wimbled, wimpled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Abbreviations
20. Acronyms
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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