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MELLOWED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mellowed mean?
• MELLOWED (adjective)
The adjective MELLOWED has 2 senses:
1. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
2. softened through age or experience
Familiarity information: MELLOWED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
Synonyms:
mellow; mellowed
Context example:
mellowed fruit
Similar:
mature; ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Softened through age or experience
Synonyms:
mellow; mellowed
Context example:
the peace of mellow age
Similar:
soft (compassionate and kind; conciliatory)
Context examples
Beneath them on every side stretched the long sweep of peaceful country, rolling plain, and tangled wood, all softened and mellowed in the silver moonshine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was the wide-spread building which he knew so well, the Abbot's house, the long church, the cloisters with their line of arches, all bathed and mellowed in the evening sun.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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