What's the difference between easygoing and mellow?

Easygoing


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lovejoy was a big deal, with X Factor-sized ratings: McShane's easygoing charisma reeled in up to 16m viewers a week.
  • (2) Combining yoga and surfing means that no one – not in our easygoing group at least – is too fanatical about either.
  • (3) By contrast, the more relaxed, easygoing style of the Type B matches better the slower pace of old age, but is not as conducive to success in younger age groups.
  • (4) An easygoing ride on horseback is the best way to take in the scenery and, within a couple of hours, I'm beginning to get used to Tango and his ways.
  • (5) The terrain, a mix of beach and clifftop paths, was easygoing aside from the July sun, which became fierce around midday.
  • (6) Besides easygoing classics like On the Road Again and Blue Moon of Kentucky, O'Brien and his band also thundered through Radiohead's Creep and the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.
  • (7) The immigration minister noted that Australians were, intrinsically, easygoing people.
  • (8) A relaxed or easygoing affiliative motive syndrome characterizes insulin dependent Type I diabetics and can, if aroused, lead to poorer blood sugar control in such diabetics.
  • (9) The entire team is – with the exception of Paley, the lone female editor – a bunch of quietly spoken dudes in T-shirts, conspicuously easygoing, witty, and dogged in their work ethic.
  • (10) Despite having such a big job at Vogue, she's so easygoing, never appears to be stressed (although I'm sure she feels so at times) and she's not what I'd call Vogue-ish or grand in any way.
  • (11) At the house party, she was happy and easygoing and approachable, and she gave her fans a very good time.
  • (12) I'm a pretty easygoing person and it bleeds into the music.
  • (13) But with his humour, easygoing charm and ability to successfully navigate between different cultural capitals, Paisley could be the one to break the mould.
  • (14) His easygoing manner quickly endeared him to viewers of ITV's popular World of Sport programme, initially hosted by Dickie Davies.
  • (15) An easygoing, youthful man in his early 60s, Crofts was educated at Lancing College, but says he was "too arrogant" for university, and stumbled into ghostwriting because, he says, "I didn't want to have a permanent job".
  • (16) The man at the centre of the operation is Mohan Kale, a 45-year-old bespectacled entrepreneur with an easygoing nature.
  • (17) On the opposing team are the swaths of people who apparently treasure wobbly footage of speck-sized people playing distorted versions of their hits, such easygoing acts as Ed Sheeran, Jason Mraz and Weezer, and the creators of a phone app called Vyclone , which “encourages audiences to film at concerts and then brings together the footage to create a crowd-sourced video of the event”.
  • (18) He was such a laid-back, easygoing man before this.
  • (19) The unassuming dentist is deeply competitive, his easygoing nature belying a fierce ambition.
  • (20) Since then, Mr Gore has appeared more relaxed, shedding an uptight image that did him no favours in contrast to Mr Bush, who projected an easygoing charm.

Mellow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  • (superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
  • (superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
  • (superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
  • (superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
  • (v. t.) To make mellow.
  • (v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, these somewhat mellow headlines mask a year of considerable underlying progress for Mr Clarke and Tesco to our minds.
  • (2) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
  • (3) I think after those 60 seconds of mellow, we're safely back in Manic mode now.
  • (4) I hope that with this court ruling China will start to mellow and south-east Asian countries won’t have to live in fear of them anymore.
  • (5) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (6) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (7) In the film , we meet a considerably mellower grade of psychopath.
  • (8) We have obtained expression of the beta-N-acetylglucosamine-binding receptor from chicken hepatocytes in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNA synthesized in vitro from a full length cDNA cloned into an expression vector (Mellow et al: J. Biol Chem 263: 5468-5473, 1988).
  • (9) You don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't see life in a more glowing way.
  • (10) The 34-year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder may have mellowed off the pitch but on it his will to win remains as strong as ever, as England can expect to discover when the teams meet in Marseille on Saturday night.
  • (11) The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza Medina: You And I I always drop this song when I want to mellow out the crowd yet still have them engaged in the melody, as the lyrics are so simple yet effective.
  • (12) Mellow Birds The British brand brought instant coffee to a tea-drinking nation in the 1970s.
  • (13) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
  • (14) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
  • (15) Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
  • (16) Attitudes toward him have mellowed to the point that well-known Vietnam draft dodger Bill Clinton, in reviewing Caro's latest volume in the New York Times , could write that he found plenty to admire in LBJ and never hated him the way that many of his generation did.
  • (17) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
  • (18) By turn mellow and electrifying, it channels funk's rawness and the warmth of house music into what at first glance appears to be pop, but is actually much more fluid.
  • (19) "I'm like, fine, take it, let's get it over with," he remembers, his mellow, late-night radio voice at odds with his imposing physique.
  • (20) And finally we had an appearance by the eminent Lord Grabiner QC on behalf of the Liverpool board, who eased to his feet and held forth in a voice that was smooth, mellow, unhurried and as finely textured as particularly well-aged pipe tobacco.