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Definition: Mild |
MildAdjective1. 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) |
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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
- Timothy Taylor's Golden Best (a light mild)
- Timothy Taylor's Dark Mild
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MILD | English | Mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming | Medicine |
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Synonyms: MildSynonyms: balmy (adj), meek (adj), modest (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: intense (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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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) | |
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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. |
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| "Gray Lots 1" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "Little blurring grayness with a building a tree and some mild mannerisms." |
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| 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. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 |
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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 |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Our revenue under the mild system of impost and tonnage continues to be adequate to all the purposes of the Government. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.38% | 1,442 | 5,601 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.48% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,451 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mild". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Clement | N/A | Biblical | Mild |
| Kliment | N/A | Czech | Mild |
| Klemens | N/A | Danish | Mild |
| Clem | N/A | English | Mild |
| Clémence | N/A | French | Mild |
| Clément | N/A | French | Mild |
| Clementine | N/A | French | Mild |
| Clemens | N/A | German | Mild |
| Klemens | N/A | German | Mild |
| Kelemen | N/A | Hungarian | Mild |
| Clemente | N/A | Italian | Mild |
| Clementina | N/A | Italian | Mild |
| Klemens | N/A | Polish | Mild |
| Klementyna | N/A | Polish | Mild |
| Clementina | N/A | Portuguese | Mild |
| Kliment | N/A | Russian | Mild |
| Klemen | N/A | Slovene | Mild |
| Clemente | N/A | Spanish | Mild |
| Clementina | N/A | Spanish | Mild |
| Klemens | N/A | Swedish | Mild |
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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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| 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 | 融 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mild" (pronounced mī"ld) |
| 4 | m ī" l d | smiled. |
| 3 | -ī" l d | beguiled, child, compiled, filed, piled, refiled, restyled, reviled, riled, styled, tiled, wild. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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