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Mellow   /mˈɛloʊ/   Listen
adjective
Mellow  adj.  (compar. mellower; superl. mellowest)  
1.
Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
2.
Hence:
(a)
Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. "Mellow glebe."
(b)
Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." "The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light."
3.
Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. "May health return to mellow age." "As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound."
4.
Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.



verb
Mellow  v. t.  (past & past part. mellowed; pres. part. mellowing)  To make mellow. "If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it (the ground), they do not plow it again till April." "The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age."



Mellow  v. i.  To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow."






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"Mellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... His face went dead white, then flaming red, and he leaned forward and gripped the fingers of his right hand in Lynch's shoulder. But Dick was too mellow and happy to object or to ...
— The Harbor Master • Theodore Goodridge Roberts

... I find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine That makes me drink the deeper to that old ...
— An Old Sweetheart of Mine • James Whitcomb Riley

... a glow, had actually been chaffering with the painter for one of those wonderful groups of luscious peaches, mellow pears, July flowers, and striped balsamine, singing birds and fluttering insects, full of extravagant beauty. In the business, too, Dulcie had been by far the more overcome of the two. The painter, roused to a job, had not cheated her; on the contrary, he had been as usual a conscientious ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler

... of strong emotion. Fourthly, the variety of his lyrical measures, and exquisite modulation of harmonious words and cadences to the swell and fall of the feelings expressed. Fifthly, the elevated habits of thought, implied in these compositions, and imparting a mellow soberness of tone, more impressive, to our minds, than if the author had drawn up a set of opinions in verse, and sought to instruct the understanding, rather than to communicate the love of beauty to ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... in its downward course had reached the hazy zone, which, bounded by the clear blue above and the horizon below, extended around the green earth; in the west, the round disk of the sun shone through it, and tinged the landscape with a beautiful, mellow light. ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson


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