mellowest

Adjective

mellow (comparative mellower or more mellow, superlative mellowest or most mellow)

1. (also, figuratively) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
   • a mellow apple

   Synonyms:

   mellowy, cushiony, flabby, flaccid, flexible, soft, spongy, malleable, moldable, pliable

2. (also, figuratively, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
   • The Claret ſmooth, deep as the lip vve preſs, / In ſparkling fancy, vvhile vve drain the bovvl; / The mellovv-taſted Burgundy; and quick, / As is the vvit it gives, the bright Champaign.1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons.”, in The Seasons, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 159, lines 696–700
3. Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
   • [A] wyse and counnynge gardener […] will first serche throughout his gardeyne where he can finde the most melowe and fertile erth: and therin wil he put the sede of the herbe to growe and be norisshed: […]1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Education or Fourme of Bringing Up of the Childe of a Gentilman, which is to Haue Authoritie in the Publike Weale”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […]...

   Synonyms:

   yielding

4. (poetic, usually, seeds, plants) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
   • Nor autumn yet had bruſh'd from ev'ry ſpray, / With her chill hand, the mellow leaves away; […]1792, [William] Cowper, “The Needless Alarm. A Tale.”, in The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the...
5. (poetic, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
   • And mellow Autumn, charged with bounteous fruit, / Where is she imaged? in what favoured clime / Her lavish pomp, and ripe magnificence?c. 1806–1809 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Book the Fifth. The Pastor.”, in The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]...

   Synonyms:

   mellowy

6. (figuratively, usually, sound, style) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
   • How ſvveet and mellovv, and yet hovv Majeſtick, is the Sound of it!1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Third Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His...

   Synonyms:

   mellowy

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