(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.
Soften
Definition:
(v. t.) To make soft or more soft.
(v. t.) To render less hard; -- said of matter.
(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
(v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
(v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
(v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other trend involved softening from penetrant liquid absorption and a concomitant decrease in hardness.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) Pathologically, there was diffuse incomplete softening of white matter in all cases.
(4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(5) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(6) Welfare cuts are now becoming a matter of life or death | Letters Read more But government sources suggested the political pressures on Osborne, who has been criticised publicly by a series of Tory MPs, suggest he will act more flexibly and direct substantial resources to softening the impact of the cuts.
(7) Moisture on the skin was shown to increase the discharge to a standard stimulus, probably by its softening effect on the stratum corneum.
(8) The importance of R for cervical softening during pregnancy and its interaction with E near term and during parturition are discussed.
(9) He and Cameron have spent the week softening up opinion for huge benefit cuts in next week’s budget , due to focus on tax credits, largely paid to in-work, ”hardworking” families, victims of Britain’s swelling ranks of the under-paid.
(10) The method of aspiration with a standard electric operative aspirator should be used for evacuation of the softened brain matter.
(11) But he also suggested the administration was softening its commitment to the Minsk framework for a deal.
(12) In a casserole over a medium heat, fry the onions in the oil and butter for 5 minutes, to soften.
(13) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(14) The wizened fish is hammered with a mallet to soften it so you can pull it off in strips to eat.
(15) The substitution of the softeners with deionisers solved this important and unusual clinical problem.
(16) Softening and elution are not sufficient for constriction, however, since high potassium, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and cyanide inhibited constriction without inhibiting the softening or elution of axoplasm.
(17) Ribotyping patterns of aeromonads recovered from well 1, detention basin, sand filter, softener, and distribution samples were compared with those of the five clinical isolates.
(18) By softening these insects in a detergent solution, however, it is possible to make most observations in the same way as on fresh material.
(19) His and Osborne's post-election "softening up" is returning to haunt them.
(20) But recently, their attitude has softened as they realise the importance of music to the island.