Synonyms for mild
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1. mildadjective

   Synonyms:
   meek, gentle, clement, placid, calm, pleasant, tranquil, kind, bland, soft, indulgent, mollifying, soothing, tender, assuasive, lenitive

   Antonyms:
   strong, severe, violent, disagreeable, harsh, irritating

2. mildadjective

   A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

   Synonyms:
   assuasive, kind, tranquil, mollifying, pleasant, tender, gentle, soothing, bland, lenitive, placid, meek, clement, soft, indulgent, calm

   Antonyms:
   violent, severe, strong, harsh, irritating, disagreeable

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1. mild

   Synonyms:
   accountable, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contingent, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, lenient, limited, lowly, meek, responsible, submissive, yielding

   Antonyms:
   absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, authoritative, autocratic, coercive, commanding, compulsive, compulsory, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, dogmatic, domineering, exacting, haughty, imperative, imperious, irresponsible, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, positive, supreme, tyrannical, unconditional, unequivocal

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1. mild

   Synonyms:
   moderate, lenient, calm, gentle, genial, tempered, soft, meek, tender, placid

   Antonyms:
   violent, wild, fierce, savage, strong, severe, merciless, harsh, bitter

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. mildadjective

   moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme

   "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"

   Synonyms:
   balmy, soft, modest, meek

   Antonyms:
   deep, intensive, keen, wicked, blood-and-guts, violent, thick, strong, profound, wild, overwhelming, proud, smart, tearing, trigger-happy, concentrated, consuming, uttermost(a), big, unrelenting, inclement, main(a), raging, terrible, extreme, intense, exquisite, severe, utmost(a), aggravated, bad, unabated, brutal, screaming(a), intensified, terrific, vehement, fierce, cold

2. meek, mild, modestadjective

   humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

   "meek and self-effacing"

   Synonyms:
   tame, low, small, humble, lowly, meek, soft, minor, modest, spiritless, balmy, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized

   Antonyms:
   intensive, raging, terrible, smart, blood-and-guts, unrelenting, proud, uttermost(a), brutal, violent, main(a), screaming(a), keen, utmost(a), inclement, terrific, wild, deep, wicked, vehement, consuming, thick, trigger-happy, severe, unabated, extreme, bad, concentrated, intense, cold, tearing, aggravated, fierce, strong, big, profound, intensified, exquisite, overwhelming

3. balmy, mild, softadjective

   mild and pleasant

   "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"; "a soft breeze"

   Synonyms:
   crackers, round the bend, flaccid, subdued, bats, nutty, buggy, modest, sonant, soft, delicate, gentle, flabby, wacky, kooky, daft, fruity, easy, kookie, indulgent, voiced, nuts, bonkers, dotty, cracked, haywire, meek, piano, easygoing, loco, diffuse, batty, loony, lenient, barmy, diffused, around the bend, balmy, cushy, loopy, whacky

   Antonyms:
   deep, wild, strong, fierce, big, main(a), violent, trigger-happy, concentrated, unabated, extreme, terrific, overwhelming, intensive, screaming(a), exquisite, consuming, proud, thick, uttermost(a), raging, inclement, unrelenting, bad, terrible, keen, brutal, cold, aggravated, blood-and-guts, vehement, intense, utmost(a), smart, tearing, wicked, profound, severe, intensified

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1. mildadjective

   Synonyms:
   tender, kind, gentle, merciful, clement, compassionate, indulgent, pacific, not severe, not harsh, not cruel

2. mildadjective

   Synonyms:
   soft, gentle, bland, pleasant, not violent, not intense

3. mildadjective

   Synonyms:
   lenitive, assuasive, mollifying, soothing, emollient, demulcent, not acrid, not corrosive

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1. mildadjective

   Synonyms:
   gentle, indulgent, tender, merciful, clement, lenient, bland, demulcent, lenitive, emollient, mitigative

   Antonyms:
   severe, drastic, rigorous, violent, harsh

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1. List of paraphrases for "mild":

   benign, slight, soft, low-tar, moderate, sweet, gentle, light, minor, léger, light-duty, lenient, fresh, lightweight, légère, modest, smooth, non-malignant, low, latif, small, slightly

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1. Aquaviva:

   Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

2. David Weber:

   Breakthrough disease clearly occurs, and for those cases, we know they're much more mild in vaccinated people, but we don't know how infectious vaccinated people are, but clearly, if you want to protect your children under 12 or grandchildren, or protect immunocompromised people, as well as protect your own health -- from even mild disease -- then you should be wearing a mask, particularly in areas of high transmission when indoors.

3. Lord Newborough:

   Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

4. Temple Grandin:

   There is no black and white dividing line between mild autistic traits and having a label of autism, and geeks and nerds in Silicon Valley, mild autism can provide some intellectual advantages and severe autism is a great handicap.

5. John Leddy:

   Mild traumatic brain injury is a category of bran injury that includes concussion, with concussion being at the mildest end of that spectrum. So sports concussion, for example, would be a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, all of the patients in this study received a CT scan to evaluate for brain bleeding or skull fracture and may have had a neurological deficit when they came to the emergency room. While that type of injury can be classified as' mild,' it's a lot more severe than a sport-related concussion typically would be.