Definitions for mellow

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mellow mel·low

Spelling: [mel-oh]

IPA: /ˈmɛl oʊ/

Mellow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in mellow (ellmow).

Definitions for mellow

noun

1. Slang. a state, atmosphere, or mood of ease and gentle relaxation.

adjective

1. soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
2. well-matured, as wines.
3. soft and rich, as sound, tones, color, or light.
4. made gentle and compassionate by age or maturity; softened.
5. friable or loamy, as soil.
6. mildly and pleasantly intoxicated or high.
7. pleasantly agreeable; free from tension, discord, etc.:
8. affably relaxed; easygoing; genial:

Verb phrases

1. mellow out, Slang. to become detached from worry, strife, stress, etc.; relax: to make more relaxed, agreeable, workable, etc.; soften or smooth:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become mellow.

Origin of mellow

1400-50; late Middle English mel(o)we, alteration (perhaps by dissimilation, in phrase meruw fruit) of Middle English meruw, Old English meru soft

Examples for mellow

It struck Madden to propose salving the dock while the crowd was mellow.

Muhammad Ali in Excelsis by Peter Richmond from GQ, April 1998 He is in mellow middle age now.

All her share of the blarney of Ireland began to roll from the mellow tip of her tongue.

Thou hast a fair, round, mellow voice; let us have a touch of it.

The following bright and mellow Monday, Uriguen cradles the new child.

Dick turned to the window, and stared at the mellow evening sky.

As his longtime friend Bishop Desmond Tutu once told Sky News, “he needed that time in prison to mellow.”

Her voice when she spoke was mellow and slow, with a nervous vibration of apology.

His first wife, Sarah Loewen, recalled him as being “mellow.”

Can you put "mellow" on the label, or just give the chemical content?