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Mellow Very Common

Mellow has 11 different meanings across 3 categories:

Verb · Adjective · Adverb

Definitions
Noun
1

A relaxed mood.

"After hours of yoga and herbal tea, she finally felt mellow enough to listen to her friend's problems without getting annoyed."

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"

4

To make mellow; to relax or soften.

"The warm music helped mellow her nerves before the big presentation."

Adjective
1

unhurried and relaxed

"a mellow conversation"

2

having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging

"a mellow port"

"mellowed fruit"

3

softened through age or experience

"mellow wisdom"

"the peace of mellow age"

4

slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)

"After smoking a joint, he sat on the porch feeling mellow as he watched the sunset."

5

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

"The bananas were perfectly mellow, so their soft pulp made for an ideal smoothie base."

Adverb
1

in a mellow manner

"After years of practicing meditation, she learned to answer difficult questions in a mellow manner that de-escalated every argument instantly."

Example Sentences
"Age and experience mellowed him over the years" verb
"With age, he mellowed" verb
"These apples need to mellow a bit more" verb
"The sun mellowed the fruit" verb
"a mellow conversation" adjective
"a mellow port" adjective
"mellowed fruit" adjective
"mellow wisdom" adjective
"the peace of mellow age" adjective
See Also
plummy unmellowed mellowly stoned suprême sauce pulp ripe weaky
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
soften change
Rhyming Words
low alow glow slow blow flow plow ablow bulow below allow aglow volow coflow kozlow hollow billow beblow yellow upflow
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