adjective, verb
adjective (mellower, mellowest)
1 (of colour or sound) soft, rich and pleasant:
mellow autumn colours * Mellow music and lighting helped to create the right atmosphere. * The leaves looked golden in the mellow afternoon light.
2 (of a taste or flavour) smooth and pleasant:
a mellow, fruity wine * coffee with a full mellow flavour
3 (of people) calm, gentle and reasonable because of age or experience:
Dad's certainly grown mellower with age.
4 (informal) (of people) relaxed, calm and happy, especially after drinking alcohol:
After two glasses of wine, I was feeling mellow.
Part of speech: verb
1 to become or make sb become less extreme in their attitudes, behaviour, etc., especially as a result of growing older:
[V] She had mellowed a great deal since their days at college. * [VN] A period spent working abroad had done nothing to mellow him.
2 [V, VN] to become, or make a colour become less bright, especially over a period of time
3 [V, VN] to develop or make wine develop a pleasant and less bitter taste over a period of time
PHRASALVERBS
mellow out (informal, especially AmE) to enjoy yourself by relaxing and not doing much:
We just listened to music and mellowed out all afternoon.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is mellow a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mellow is tagged as verb.
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