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# mellow

«mellow» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft, warm and rich, for light, colour or sound** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (mellow, mellower, mellowest); verb (mellows, mellowed, mellowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mellow means soft, warm and rich, for light, colour or sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#m1)

2) Mellow means calm, relaxed and gentle in mood; a person can become mellow with age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#m2)

3) (verb) To mellow is to become softer, warmer or calmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a soft, warm light or colour in a story, often used to show a peaceful or sad scene

### examples

- The mellow light of the sunset fell on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#x1)
- The music sounded warm and mellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#x2)
- With age, the old king grew mellow and kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mellow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mellow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.