verb
- Soften, make mellow.
- usage: "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"
- Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.
- usage: "With age, he mellowed"
- synonyms: melt, mellow out
- Make or grow (more) mellow.
- usage: "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"
adjective
- Unhurried and relaxed.
- usage: "a mellow conversation"
- synonyms: laid-back
- Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging.
- usage: "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"
- synonyms: mellowed
- Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience.
- usage: "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"
- synonyms: mellowed
- Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience.
- usage: "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"
- Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana.
- synonyms: high
adverb
- Obsolete) in a mellow manner. (.
- synonyms: mellowly
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). mellow. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/mellow/definitions/1178260 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "mellow" http://smartdefine.org/mellow/definitions/1178260 (accessed September 20, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, mellow, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/mellow/definitions/1178260>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "mellow" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/mellow/definitions/1178260> |