[ UK /mˈɛlə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛɫoʊ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
  2. unhurried and relaxed
    a mellow conversation
  3. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
    mellowed fruit
    a mellow port
  4. softened through age or experience
    the peace of mellow age
    mellow wisdom
VERB
  1. soften, make mellow
    Age and experience mellowed him over the years
  2. make or grow (more) mellow
    These apples need to mellow a bit more
    The sun mellowed the fruit
  3. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
    With age, he mellowed
ADVERB
  1. in a mellow manner
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How To Use mellow In A Sentence

  • Although he has mellowed a little since then, he is still a long way from being easy listening. Times, Sunday Times
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • Rich, warm string tone, sweet, elegant winds, and mellow, sonorous brass are the hallmarks of the ‘Saxony sound’.
  • The best wine vinegar may be made from either white or red wine, the latter having an agreeable mellow taste.
  • The stalks grow pale and wide, the flavour mellow yet powerful and tangy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The afternoon sunset had tinted the white clouds and blue sky into subtle, mellow shades and the fresh, wet winds brushed our faces as we were transported to the tideland in an ox cart.
  • Lily's Rhode Island Red and my Mille Fleur were easy to read — mellow. The Chicken Chronicles
  • In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
  • In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
  • Mellow music and lighting helped to create the right atmosphere.
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