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.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, 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)

Adjective

(er)

having lots of juice

a juicy peach

(of a story, etc. ) exciting, interesting, or enticing

I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.

(of a blow, strike, etc. ) strong, painful

* 1960:' ''“Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a '''juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter V)

* 1960:' ''Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the '''juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter I)