Crossword clues for mildest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mild \Mild\ (m[imac]ld), a. [Compar. Milder; superl. Mildest.] [AS. milde; akin to OS. mildi, D. & G. mild, OHG. milti, Icel. mildr, Sw. & Dan. mild, Goth. milds; cf. Lith. melas dear, Gr. ? gladdening gifts.] Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
The rosy morn resigns her light
And milder glory to the noon.
--Waller.
Adore him as a mild and merciful Being.
--Rogers.
Mild steel, or Low steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened.
Syn: Soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant; placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement; mollifying; lenitive; assuasive. See Gentle.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: mild)
Usage examples of "mildest".
According to the mildest rules of ecclesiastical discipline, which were established in the fourth century, the crime of homicide was expiated by the penitence of twenty years: ^97 and as it was impossible, in the period of human life, to purge the accumulated guilt of the massacre of Thessalonica, the murderer should have been excluded from the holy communion till the hour of his death.
Antona had once told Killashandra that it was an infrequent enough manifestation, more often accompanying the Milekey Transition, the mildest form of adjustment to the Ballybran symbiont.
In the fluid tank, Killa had only the mildest of decomposition willies.
Zainal replied at his mildest, and there was restlessness from the audience.
The mildest tales she had heard about that part of dragonlore were chilling, the worst dismayingly macabre.
Master Wansor was the mildest of men and his sudden insistence surprised G'dened and G'narish.
His offence, according to the mildest laws, amounted to treason, and deserved death.
Scarlett had always feared them, even the mildest cow seemed sinister to her, but this was no time to truckle to small fears when great ones crowded so thick upon her.
And the mildest thing they’ll say is that Suellen is a murderess and a traitor and but for her Mr.
Hostesses who had previously vied with one another only in the mildest ways became suddenly imbued with the spirit of fierce competition.