mellow

1. 1.

   soften, make mellow

   “Age and experience mellowed him over the years”

   Broadersoften
2. 2.

   become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

   “With age, he mellowed”

   Synonymsmeltmellow out

   Broaderchange
3. 3.

   make or grow (more) mellow

   “These apples need to mellow a bit more”

   “The sun mellowed the fruit”

   Broadersoften

1. 1.

   in a mellow manner

   Synonymsmellowly

Other forms of mellow

past tense

mellowed·

present participle

mellowing·

third person

mellows·

comparative

mellower·

superlative

mellowest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mellow

What does mellow mean?

mellow means "unhurried and relaxed". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mellow?

mellow has 2 syllables: mel-low. The stress falls on "mel". In IPA it is /ˈmɛloʊ/.

What is another word for mellow?

Close synonyms include laid-back, mellowed, mellowed, high, melt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mellow a common word?

mellow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mellow?

1 word rhymes with mellow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.