Synonyms for mellow
ˈmɛl oʊmel·low

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1. mellow

   Synonyms:
   ripe, rich, full-flavored, jovial, mature, soft

   Antonyms:
   unripe, harsh, sour, acid, acrid, crabbed, sober, dry

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1. laid-back, mellowadjective

   unhurried and relaxed

   "a mellow conversation"

   Synonyms:
   mellowed, laid-back, high

   Antonyms:
   tense, unripened, immature, unripe, sober, green, hard

2. mellow, mellowedadjective

   having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging

   "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"

   Synonyms:
   mellowed, laid-back, high

   Antonyms:
   sober, unripened, immature, tense, unripe, green, hard

3. mellow, mellowedadjective

   having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience

   "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"

   Synonyms:
   mellowed, laid-back, high

   Antonyms:
   unripened, hard, green, immature, unripe, tense, sober

4. mellowadjective

   having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience

   "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"

   Synonyms:
   mellowed, laid-back, high

   Antonyms:
   tense, immature, sober, unripened, hard, green, unripe

5. high, mellowverb

   slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)

   Synonyms:
   gamy, high-pitched, high, mellowed, gamey, eminent, laid-back, in high spirits

   Antonyms:
   immature, unripe, unripened, tense, sober, hard, green

6. mellowverb

   soften, make mellow

   "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"

   Synonyms:
   mellow out, melt

   Antonyms:
   immature, sober, tense, unripe, unripened, green, hard

7. mellow, melt, mellow outverb

   become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

   "With age, he mellowed"

   Synonyms:
   melt, dethaw, run, meld, fade, melt down, evaporate, thaw, dissolve, mellow out, unthaw, disappear, unfreeze

   Antonyms:
   immature, hard, unripened, unripe, green, tense, sober

8. mellowadverb

   make or grow (more) mellow

   "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"

   Synonyms:
   mellow out, melt

   Antonyms:
   unripened, immature, hard, unripe, sober, tense, green

9. mellowly, mellowadverb

   (obsolete) in a mellow manner

   Synonyms:
   mellowly

   Antonyms:
   sober, unripened, tense, immature, green, hard, unripe

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1. mellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   ripe, mature

2. mellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, mellifluous, smooth, silver-toned, sweetly flowing

3. mellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   perfected, well prepared

4. mellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   DRUNK, tipsy, fuddled, disguised, half seas over

5. mellowverb

   Synonyms:
   ripen, mature

6. mellowverb

   Synonyms:
   perfect, bring to perfection

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1. List of paraphrases for "mellow":

   relaxed, calm

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How to use mellow in a sentence?

1. Alex Bennett:

   Carson's a lot calmer. He's mellow, I feel like he knows what he's talking about -- whereas Trump is a loose cannon. He gets himself in trouble.

2. Ronald Tate:

   My son didn't see color. .. We didn't have all this animosity between races, and my son didn't see that. He didn't have time for that. He was just mellow and laid back and didn't want to get into that.

3. Tanya Altmann:

   My goal is getting kids safely back to school in the fall, and if that means having a mellow summer at home then I'm all for that.

4. Matt Jarrell:

   He was a mellow guy, he was somebody I could talk to about anything.

5. Ronnie Wood:

   Keith Richards's a pleasure to work with, much more mellow. Keith Richards's open to more ideas, whereas before I'd kind of grit my teeth and go,' Keith Richards's gon na give me some s ** t for saying this.' Now, Keith Richards'll say,' That's cool, man.'.