Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.

(obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.

(astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).

Merry; cheerful and good-humored.

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Adjective

(en-adj)

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

a mellow apple

Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.

a mellow soil

* Drayton

flowers of rank and mellow glebe

Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.

* Wordsworth

the mellow horn

* Thomson

the mellow -tasted Burgundy

* Percival

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

Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

* Wordsworth

May health return to mellow age.

* Washington Irving

as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound

Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}

Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated; or, stoned, high.

(Addison)