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Serene vs Mellow - What's the difference?

serene | mellow |

As verbs the difference between serene and mellow

is that serene is while mellow is to make mellow; to relax or soften.

As an adjective mellow is

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

As a noun mellow is

a relaxed mood.

serene

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
  • *
    • Serene , smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  • Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
  • (lb) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.
  • * (Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
    • Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=(Mary Shelley), chapter=6
    • , title= Frankenstein , passage=A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.}}
    • Related terms
    * serenity

    Verb

    (seren)
  • To make serene.
    • Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul. — Thomson.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
  • * Southey
    • the serene of heaven
  • * Young
    • To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene .
  • Evening air; night chill.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Some serene blast me.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) suffix.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
    • Synonyms
    *

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1. ----

    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