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mellow 音標拼音: [m'ɛlo] a. 成熟的,醇的,熟練的 成熟的,醇的,熟練的 mellow adv 1: ( obsolete) in a mellow manner [ synonym: { mellowly}, { mellow}] adj 1: unhurried and relaxed; " a mellow conversation" [ synonym: { laid- back}, { mellow}] 2: having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; " a mellow port"; " mellowed fruit" [ synonym: { mellow}, { mellowed}] 3: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; " mellow wisdom"; " the peace of mellow age" [ synonym: { mellow}, { mellowed}] 4: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; " mellow wisdom"; " the peace of mellow age" 5: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug ( especially marijuana) [ synonym: { high}, { mellow}] v 1: soften, make mellow; " Age and experience mellowed him over the years" 2: become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; " With age, he mellowed" [ synonym: { mellow}, { melt}, { mellow out}] 3: make or grow ( more) mellow; " These apples need to mellow a bit more"; " The sun mellowed the fruit" Mellow \ Mel" low\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Mellowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Mellowing}.] To make mellow. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it [ the ground], they do not plow it again till April. -- Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster] The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. -- J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster]
Mellow \ Mel" low\, a. [ Compar. { Mellower}; superl. { Mellowest}.] [ OE. melwe; cf. AS. mearu soft, D. murw, Prov. G. mollig soft, D. malsch, and E. meal flour.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: ( a) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. " Mellow glebe." -- Drayton ( b) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. " The mellow horn." -- Wordsworth. " The mellow- tasted Burgundy." -- Thomson. [ 1913 Webster] The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light. -- Percival. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. [ 1913 Webster] May health return to mellow age. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. -- W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster]
Mellow \ Mel" low\, v. i. To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. " Prosperity begins to mellow." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 245 Moby Thesaurus words for " mellow": achingly sweet, addled, advance, affable, age, aged, agreeable, agreeable- sounding, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, attain majority, bear fruit, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, blissful, bloom, blossom, blow, bring to maturity, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, come of age, come to fruition, come to maturity, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, crapulent, crapulous, creamy, cushion, delicate, delicious, desirable, develop, developed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, dulcet, ease, easy, easygoing, eggshell, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, evolute, evolve, fair, fair and pleasant, far- gone, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine- toned, flat, flavorful, fledge, flourish, flower, fluff, flustered, fou, friendly, full, full- blown, full- flavored, full- fledged, full- grown, fully developed, gay, genial, gentle, giddy, glorious, gloss, golden, golden- tongued, golden- voiced, good, good- natured, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, grow, grow up, happy, harmonious, heart- warming, honeyed, in full bloom, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, iridescent, jolly, jovial, juicy, knead, laxate, leave the nest, light, likable, limber, limber up, liquid, loosen, luscious, mash, massage, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, maudlin, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellowed, mellowy, melodic, melodious, merry, mild, milden, mollified, mollify, mother- of- pearl, muddled, music- flowing, music- like, musical, muted, nacreous, nappy, nice, nonresistive, nonrigid, opalescent, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, plangent, pleasant, pleasant- sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure- giving, pleasureful, plump, progress, pulp, pulsing, pure, quiet, reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty- one, reach voting age, ready, reeling, relax, resonant, resonating, rewarding, rich, ripe, ripen, ripened, rolling, sad, satisfying, season, seasoned, semigloss, settle down, shake up, shikker, silver- toned, silver- tongued, silver- voiced, silvery, simple, singable, smash, sober, sodden, soft, soft as putty, soft- colored, soft- hued, soften, soften up, softened, somber, songful, songlike, sonorous, sotted, squash, subdue, subdued, subtle, supple, sweet, sweet- flowing, sweet- sounding, sweeten, temper, tempered, tender, tenderize, throbbing, tiddly, tipsy, toga virilis, tone down, tunable, tune down, tuneful, under the influence, vibrant, vibrating, warm, wax, welcome, whisper- soft
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