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Mellow vs Sooth - What's the difference?

mellow | sooth |

As adjectives the difference between mellow and sooth

is that mellow is soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp while sooth is (archaic) true.

As nouns the difference between mellow and sooth

is that mellow is a relaxed mood while sooth is (archaic) truth.

As a verb mellow

is to make mellow; to relax or soften.

mellow

English

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)

    Derived terms

    * mellowness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A relaxed mood.
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mellow; to relax or soften.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * J. C. Shairp
    • The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.
  • To become .

    • Derived terms

    * harshing my mellow (harsh one's mellow) * mellow out

    sooth

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Truth.
  • * (Merchant of Venice , Act I, Scene 1)
    • In sooth , I know not why I am so sad.
  • * Longfellow
    • In good sooth , / Its mystery is love, its meaning youth.
  • (obsolete) augury; prognostication
  • * Spenser
    • The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.
  • (obsolete) blandishment; cajolery
  • (obsolete) reality; fact

    • Derived terms

    * soothsayer * soothsaying * soothfast * forsooth

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) True.
  • * Spenser
    • That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
  • (obsolete) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
  • * Milton
    • the soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains
  • * Keats
    • with jellies soother than the creamy curd

    See also

    * soothe * soothly * soothfast * forsooth

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