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Definitions: Mellow |
MellowAdjective1. Unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation". 2. Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit". 3. Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age". 4. 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". 5. Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana). Adverb1. (obsolete) in a mellow manner. Verb1. Soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years". 2. Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed". 3. Make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mellow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Porous, softer than friable, without tendency to become compact. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MELLOW. Almost drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: MellowSynonyms: easygoing (adj), high (adj), laid-back (adj), mellowed (adj), mellowing (adj), mellowly (adj), mellow out (v), melt (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: mellower (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time. |
Continuance in action | Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
Improvement | Improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten. |
Moderation | 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. |
Preparation | Ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced; (skilled); labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up. |
Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. | |
Softness | Verb: render -soft. Adjective: soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash. |
Flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mellow |
| English words defined with "mellow": Chessom ♦ easygoing ♦ Fluted ♦ Green fallow ♦ laid-back ♦ mellow out, mellowed, mellowing, mellowingly, mellowly ♦ Omy, Overmellow ♦ plummy ♦ rich. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mellow": MELLOW, mellow amber, Mellow Drug of America. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mellow": Fracid ♦ Mawmish ♦ Omy ♦ Pumpkin. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) He's so mellow. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club -- hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow -- walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. (Save the Tiger; writing credit: Steve Shagan) Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow! (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down. (Action; writing credit: Will Forte; Adam Hamburger) | |
Lyrics | Giving em eargasms with my mellow accent (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) Mellow as the month of May ("I Feel the Earth Move"; performing artist: Carole King) Through the years as the fire starts to mellow (Longer; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) You get her name and number and then you feelin' real mellow (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) You say youre gonna burn before you mellow (Ex-Girlfriend; performing artist: No Doubt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On the Mellow Side (1945) Emile Coleman and His Orchestra In On the Mellow Side (1944) C.O.D.: A Mellow Drama (1929) The Mellow Quartette (1925) | |
Song Titles | I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The mellow call leaped forth across the brooding field.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| A mellow nylon string guitar solo with a second guitar playing arpeggio. | |
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E. H. Chapin | Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in the purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. |
Keats | Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Luckily the mellow soil, wet by the winter rains, stuck to the wheels, and made the track heavy. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | So now prosperity begins to mellow And drop into the rotten mouth of death. |
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| "Mellow" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.40% of the time. "Mellow" is used about 233 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) | 79.4% | 185 | 22,646 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.02% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.58% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 233 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mellow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mellow | Last name | 200 | 39,890 |
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Expressions using "mellow": Mellow Drug of America ♦ mellow out. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mellow mushroom | 183 | mellow mushroom franchise | 4 |
mellow yellow | 72 | a touch of mellow | 4 |
mellow | 52 | mellow rock | 4 |
bang mellow yellow | 28 | mellow soda yellow | 4 |
mellow man ace | 28 | have you never been mellow | 4 |
lyrics mellow yellow | 18 | beck mellow gold | 4 |
mellow music | 17 | been ever have mellow | 4 |
mellow mushroom pizza | 13 | call mellow they yellow | 4 |
ace lyrics man mellow | 10 | bang driver mellow yellow | 4 |
mail mellow | 10 | chinese mellow | 4 |
driver mellow yellow | 9 | lyrics mellow mood | 4 |
drunk mellow | 7 | mellow mood | 4 |
mellow song | 6 | lyrics mellow | 3 |
mellow mushroom restaurant | 6 | ace discography man mellow | 3 |
club golf mellow yellow | 6 | beach mellow | 3 |
donovan mellow yellow | 6 | mark mellow | 3 |
dramatic mellow | 5 | mellow trax | 3 |
golf mellow yellow | 5 | drink mellow yellow | 3 |
mellow gold | 5 | in a mellow tone | 3 |
bean coffee mellow | 4 | fine and mellow | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "mellow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbutet (attenuate, be soothed, melt, relent, tone down), pjellor (fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, genital, loamy, pinguid, prolific, rich), piqem (bake, broil, grow ripe, grow round, grow up, head, mature, ripen), i pjekur (baked, burnt, full blown, full grown, mature, ripe, weighty), i pasur (affluent, exuberant, fruity, luxuriant, opulent, pay, podded, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding), i bërë (done, fabricated, made, mature, ripe), i arrirë (mature, ripe), çakërrqejf (jag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | يانع (ripe), مصقول الحاشية, مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), نشوان, لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), طري (droopy, fresh, mushy, soft, supple), جعله يانعا, أصبح معتقا, ثمل بعض الشىء, رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), رخيم (euphonic, liquid, melodious, singsong, soft, tuneful), شجي (melodious, pathetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | общителен (chummy, clubbable, communicable, communicative, conversable, convivial, folksy, genial, gregarious, knowable, maty, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable, unbuttoned), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, half seas over, lit, merry, muzzy, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous), пивък (light, palatable, smooth, suave), поумнял (grown wiser), поумнявам (grow wiser), правя да поулегне, правя да поумнее, правя да омекне, богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), зрея, зрял (adult, grown, mature, ripe), мазен (fat, fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, rich, sleek, slimy, soapy, treacly, unctuous, yolky), добродушен (avuncular, easygoing, good hearted, good humoured, good natured, good tempered, good-humored, jovial, kind, pickwickian, placable), на градус (elevated), сърдечен (cardiac, cheery, cordial, expansive, genial, hearty, kind, lusty, openhearted, pressing, warm), омекотявам (attemper, mince), омеквам (become soft, give, melt, relent, soften, unbend), отлежал (aged, mature, seasoned), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), глинест (argilliferous, clay, clayey, loamy), топъл (cosy, genial, hot, warm), сладък (cute, dulcet, euphonious, fresh, honey, sweet, yummy), сочен (juicy, lush, sappy, succulent), улегнал (composed, sedate, settled, staid), улягам (steady, subside), узрял (mature), узрявам (bake, grow ripe, maturate, mature, ripen), уталожен, мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 醇厚. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mìkký (balmy, fresh, gentle, mild, silky, soft, squashy, tender), zralý (full blown, grown, mature, ripe), vážný (austere, dangerous, earnest, good, grave, major, pensive, portly, serious, solemn, solid, stern, straight, strong, wistful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | liefdesdrug (Love pill, Mellow Drug of America, speed for lovers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Meek, Merciful, Mild, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Lithe, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), جاافتاده (Ripe), رسیده (Consummate, Full, Grown, Headed, Ripe), دلپذیر (Amiable, Graceful, Gracious, Handsome, Kindly, Lief, Lovely, Luscious, Melodious, Nice, Palatable, Scrumptious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täyteläinen (full-bodied, plump, rich), kuohkea (light, loose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | moelleux (medullary, mellowness), meuble, mélodieux (melodious), mûrir, velouté (mellowness), se velouter, s'adoucir, riche (mean), rendre moelleux, pompette, harmonieux (melodious), bien mûr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mildern (alleviate, calm, deaden, ease, mitigate, moderate, palliate, reduce, relieve, soften, softening, soothe, temper, to alleviate, to soften). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ώριμοσ (mature, ripe), γλυκύσ (balmy, suave, sweet), μαλακόσ (compliant, crumby, malleable, meek, mild, quaggy, smooth, soft, softy, squashy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), ωριμάζω (grow up, maturate, mature, ripen, season). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתון (aggradation, cautious, considerate, easygoing, gentle, gradualness, mild, moderate, moderation, restrained, slow down, slowness, staid, temperate), מתוק (lovely, pleasant, sweet, sweetening), מבושם (fragrant, perfumed, scented), רך (dainty, flaccid, gentle, limping, soft, tender), נחמד (adorable, charming, cute, dainty, delightful, desirable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | telt (buxom, fruity, full, plump, replete, rich, rotund), dús (affluent, exuberant, fat, opulent, plenteous, rank, rich), érett (mature, mure, ripe, seasoned), spicces (festive, fuzzy, jolly, pickled, pixilated), lágy (bland, milky, silken, silky, soft, still, suave, tender), kedélyes (convivial, good humoured, good natured, good-humored, good-natured, jocose, jovial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lembut (balmy, lithesome, pliable, soft), empuk (pulpous, pulpy, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | maturo (adult, frost, mature, ripe, seasoned), maturarsi, maturare (accrue, become mature, fall due, grow up, maturate, mature, reach gradually, ripe, ripen), vellutato (velvety), succoso (juicily, juicy, lushly, sappy), ricco (abounding, abundant, affluent, empire, full, loaded, moneyed, pursy, realm, rich, rich person, richer, rife, sumptuous, valuable, wealthier, wealthily, wealthy, well to do, well-off), pastoso (mushy), fertile (fat, fertile, fruitful, pregnant), ammorbidirsi (soften), addolcirsi (soften). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 円熟した (fully developed, mature, ripe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | えんじゅくした (fully developed, mature, ripe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감미로운 (sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellowmay maduro (full blown, mature, ripe), macio (cottony, creamy, cushiony, downy, fleecy, fluffy, gentle, lithesome, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, soft, tender), suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), sazonar (matured debt, ripen), sazonado (mature, ripe), polpudo (pulpy), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocularity, jollier, jolly, jovial, liven, merry, merry andrew, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), dulcificar (dulcimer, sweeten), brando (bland, dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flag, gentle, lenient, light, lithe, meek, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, tender), barrento (clay, clayey, loamy, muddy, turbid), aveludado (downy, peachy, sericeous, velvety), amadurecer (age, brew, maturate, mature, ripen, season), adocicado (luscious, sugary, sweetish), adoçar (blunt, honey, sweeten). (various references) moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), mãlãieţ (luscious, spineless), matur (adult, full grown, mature, maturely, ripe), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), maturizat, afâna (break up, loosen), afânat (light, loose), afabil (affable, affably, amiable, bland, blandly), face mai moale, înmuia (dabble, dip, drench, immerse, melt, poach, relent, ret, soak, soften, steep, unbend), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), îndulci (alleviate, break, delight, dulcify, modify, palliate, satisfy, smooth, soften, sugar, sweeten, tame), în pârg, atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down, water down), copt (baked, mature, ripe), cuminţi (become quiet), cuminţit, discret (circumspect, delicate, discreet, hushed, maiden, reserved, secret, secretive, silent, subdued, unobtrusive), îmblânzi (curb, daunt, domesticate, gentle, humanize, manage, milden, pacify, propitiate, reclaim, subdue, tame, train), dulceag (fulsome, soppy, sweetish), voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), gingaş (dainty, delicate, delicately, fastidious, fine, fragile, frail, gentle, nice, pernickety, sightly, squeamish, sweet, tender), pârguit (mature, ripe), plãcut la gust (palatable, Savory, savoury), potolit (becalmed, calm, dim, quiet, relieved, sedate, sober, still, undisturbed), prietenos (amicable, blandly, cheerful, clubby, companionable, cordial, friendly, kind, kindly, Matey, mild, mildly, nice, pally, sweet), suav (melodious, suave, sweet), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning). (various references) умудренный опытом, сочный (goluptious, juicy, lush, pulpy, sappy, succulent), смягчать (assuage, attenuate, commute, damp, extenuate, melt, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soft pedal, soften, subdue, tone down), спелый (mature, ripe), разрыхлять (loosen, pick, pick up, pickax), мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding), приятный на вкус (toothsome), подвыпивший (beery, elevated, exhilarated, half seas over, half-seas-over, jolly, merry, screwed, tipsy), плодородный (fecund, fertile, fruitful, genial, luxuriant, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank), делаться мягким, делать спелым. (various references) zreo (adult, full-fledged, grown, mature, ripe), sočan (juicy, luscious, lush, pulpy, sappy, succulent), sazreti (grow ripe, maturate, mature, ripen), pripit (tipsy), postati blag, ležeran (comfortable, easygoing, laid back, leisure, leisurely, relaxed), blag (benign, bland, clement, genial, gentle, lenient, light, meek, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous). (various references) meloso (honeyed, mealy, mealy mouthed, saponaceous, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, sweet), melodioso (dulcet, melodious, tuneful), maduro (mature, ripe), madurar (maturate, mature, ripen, season, silk). (various references) mogna (maturate, mature, ripen, season), mogen (full-fledged, mature, ripe), fyllig (ample, buxom, detailed, full, full-bodied, full-flavored, full-flavoured, orotund, plump, rich, well-rounded). (various references) yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, melt, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, season, shake up, smooth, soft pedal, soften, supple, tame, unbend, unman), yumuşamak (let loose, let upon, limber up, melt, moderate, relax, relent, soften, sweeten, unbend), yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), yıllanmış (aged), tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), olgunlaşmak (cut one's wisdom teeth, flower, head, maturate, mature, ripen, season, set), olgun (grown, mature, ripe, seasoned). (various references) спілий (ripe), витриманий (old, self possessed, temperate, well-conditioned), м'якшати (relent), пухкий (crumbly, friable, non-coherent, well-padded), достигати. (various references) peraidd (sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | emollitum, maturae, mature, maturius. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | melsc, milisc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mellow": mellowed, mellower, mellowest, mellowing, mellowly, mellowness, mellownesses, mellows. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mellow": unmellow. (additional references) | |
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"Mellow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amelko, Dellow, Emblow, Kellow, maldow, mallo, Malloum, malow, maslow, Medlawa, Medlow, meglio, Meillo, melalap, Melili, Melillo, Melli, mello, mell'o, mellom, mellowly, Melloy, Mellum, meloc, melom, melot, melow, Meloy, Millook, Muxlow, Nello, n'low. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mellow" (pronounced me"lō) |
| 3 | -e" l ō | bellow, cello, fellow, Martello, Morello, yellow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-m-o-w" | |
-2 letters: lowe, mell, meow, mewl, mole, moll, well. | |
-3 letters: ell, elm, low, mel, mew, mol, mow, ole, owe, owl, woe. | |
-4 letters: el, em, lo, me, mo, oe, om, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-m-o-w" | |
+1 letter: mellows. | |
+2 letters: gromwell, mellowed, mellower, mellowly, unmellow. | |
+3 letters: fellowman, fellowmen, gromwells, mellowest, mellowing, welcomely. | |
+4 letters: embowelled, mellowness. | |
+5 letters: embowelling, wholesomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6C 6C 6F 77 |
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