Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - mellow
Mellow
mellow
adj. & v. --adj. 1 (of sound, colour, light) soft and rich, free from harshness. 2 (of character) softened or matured by age or experience. 3 genial, jovial. 4 partly intoxicated. 5 (of fruit) soft, sweet, and juicy. 6 (of wine) well-matured, smooth. 7 (of earth) rich, loamy. --v.tr. & intr. make or become mellow. Derivatives mellowly adv. mellowness n. Etymology: ME, perh. f. attrib. use of OE melu, melw- MEAL(2)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English melowe Date: 15th century 1. tender and sweet because of ripeness, well aged and pleasingly mild, 2. made gentle by age or experience, rich and full but free from garishness or stridency, warmed and relaxed by or as if by liquor, pleasant, agreeable, laid-back, having a soft and loamy consistency, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. verb Date: 1575 transitive verb to make ~, intransitive verb to become ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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