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Mellowest

Mellow \Mel"low\, a. [Compar. Mellower; superl. Mellowest.] [OE. melwe; cf. AS. mearu soft, D. murw, Prov. G. mollig soft, D. malsch, and E. meal flour.]

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

  2. Hence:

    1. Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. ``Mellow glebe.''
      --Drayton

    2. Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. ``The mellow horn.''
      --Wordsworth. ``The mellow-tasted Burgundy.''
      --Thomson.

      The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light.
      --Percival.

  3. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

    May health return to mellow age.
    --Wordsworth.

    As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
    --W. Irving.

  4. Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
    --Addison.

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mellowest

a. (en-superlative of: mellow)

Usage examples of "mellowest".

Noonday's voice sounded forth one of their multisyllabic sentences like the mellowest of brass horns.

The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste, subtlest of servants.

But Diego de Fonseca presided over what was widely held to be the mellowest and most easy-going Inquisition prison in the whole Spanish Empire, and he said it in mild conversational tones.