Mild

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
  • adj. Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force: a mild pipe tobacco; a mild sedative.
  • adj. Not extreme: a mild winter storm.
  • adj. Warm and full of sunshine; pleasant: a mild spring day; mild weather in June.
  • adj. Not severe or acute: a mild fever.
  • adj. Easily molded, shaped, or worked; malleable: mild steel.
  • verb-intransitive. Texas & Virginia To diminish or decrease. Used of the wind or a storm. See Regional Note at fair1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Gentle and not easily provoked:
  • n. A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Possessing softness or gentleness of disposition; soft-mannered; kindly disposed; good-tempered.
  • Exercising gentleness in conduct or action; not harsh or unfeeling; considerate; conciliatory.
  • Marked by softness or kindness; gentle in character, method, or appearance; manifesting or expressing mildness; mollifying; tranquil; placid: as, mild words or manners; a mild rebuke; a mild aspect.
  • Gentle or moderate in force, operation, or effect; not harsh or irritating; emollient; bland; genial: as, mild medicine; mild winds; a mild remedy.
  • Moderate in quality or degree; of mitigated force; weak in kind; free from harshness or roughness; hence, not hard to endure, manage, etc.: as, mild fruit; mild dissipation; mild efforts.
  • Hence, new; not having gained the taste that comes by keeping: said of malt liquors: as, mild ale
  • See the quotation.
  • [Mild forms the first element in a number of compounds of obvious signification: for example, mild-flavored, mild-looking, mild-mannered, mild-spirited, mild-tempered.]
  • n. Mildness; gentleness.
  • To become mild.
  • To make merciful.
  • To pity; pardon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. mild and pleasant
  • adj. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
  • adj. moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
  • Equivalent
    clement    humble    mild-mannered    gentle    temperate    moderate    soft    low steel   
    Antonym
    irritating    strong    violent    severe    harsh    disagreeable   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    assuasive    calm    lenitive    mollifying    kind    soft    placid    tranquil    meek    gentle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Child    Wild    Wilde    beguiled    child    compiled    filed    piled    refiled    restyled   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gentle    severe    slight    quiet    polite