Definition of Mellow

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Mellow

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.

Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.

Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.

Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.

To make mellow.

To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

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Mellow Quotations

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
Les Paul

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
Ville Valo

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.
Neil Patrick Harris

Autumn's the mellow time.
William Allingham

Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive.
Jason Mewes

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Boz Scaggs

Mellow Translations

mellow in Swedish is mogen, mogna, fyllig

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