mellow definition

1. soften, make mellow
• examples: Age and experience mellowed him over the years
2. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
• examples: With age, he mellowed
3. make or grow (more) mellow
• examples: These apples need to mellow a bit more
• examples: The sun mellowed the fruit
4. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
• examples: a mellow port
• examples: mellowed fruit
5. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
• examples: mellow wisdom
• examples: the peace of mellow age
6. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
• examples: mellow wisdom
• examples: the peace of mellow age
7. (obsolete) in a mellow manner