Mellow

  

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Mellow

Definitions: Mellow

Mellow

Adjective

1. 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).

Adverb

1. (obsolete) in a mellow manner.

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definitions: Mellow

DomainDefinitions

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.

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

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Synonyms: Mellow

Synonyms: 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).

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Synonyms within Context: Mellow

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Mellow

English words defined with "mellow": ChessomeasygoingFlutedGreen fallowlaid-backmellow out, mellowed, mellowing, mellowingly, mellowlyOmy, Overmellowplummyrich. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mellow": MELLOW, mellow amber, Mellow Drug of America. (references)
Etymologies containing "mellow": FracidMawmishOmyPumpkin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mellow

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Mellow

DomainTitle

Books

  • Beck Mellow Gold (reference)

  • Brown Cow, Green Grass, Yellow Mellow Sun (reference)

  • Los Angeles : City of Dreams : Up the Mellow Yellow Brick Road (reference)

  • Macro Mellow : Recipes for Macrobiotic Cooking (reference)

  • Mellow Rock Hits (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Mellow

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The mellow call leaped forth across the brooding field.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Sounds Captioned with "Mellow".

PlayCaption
A mellow nylon string guitar solo with a second guitar playing arpeggio.
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Familiar Quotations: Mellow

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Mellow

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Mellow

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)79.4%18522,646
Lexical Verb (base form)12.02%2865,706
Lexical Verb (infinitive)8.58%2078,262
                    Total100.00%233N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Mellow

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MellowLast name20039,890
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mellow

Expressions using "mellow": Mellow Drug of America mellow out. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mellow

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

  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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Modern Translations: Mellow

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

спілий (ripe), витриманий (old, self possessed, temperate, well-conditioned), м'якшати (relent), пухкий (crumbly, friable, non-coherent, well-padded), достигати. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

peraidd (sweet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mellow

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

emollitum, maturae, mature, maturius. (various references)

Old English450-1100

melsc, milisc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mellow

Derivations

Words beginning with "mellow": mellowed, mellower, mellowest, mellowing, mellowly, mellowness, mellownesses, mellows. (additional references)

Words ending with "mellow": unmellow. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Mellow"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mellow" (pronounced me"lō)
3-e" l ōbellow, cello, fellow, Martello, Morello, yellow.

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

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Anagrams: Mellow

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mellow


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 6C 6C 6F 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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