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moderate

v. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed"

make mellow

v. soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"

melt, grow mellow, grow more mellow

v. make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"

mellowly

adv. (obsolete) in a mellow manner

mellow

adj. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"

high

adj. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)

mellowed

adj. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"

gentle, mellowed

adj. having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"

genial, at ease

adj. unhurried and relaxed; "a mellow conversation"

age, mature, maturate, grow old, grow older

v. grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"

temper, season, dilate

v. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"

age, make older, cause to age

v. make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"

temper, season, dilate

v. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"

balance, equilibrate, equilibrize

v. bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"

ripe

adj. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"

melodious, melodic

adj. containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"

calm, serene, tranquil

adj. not agitated; without losing self-possession; "spoke in a calm voice"; "remained calm throughout the uproar"; "he remained serene in the midst of turbulence"; "a serene expression on her face"; "she became more tranquil"; "tranquil life in the country"

soothing, restful

adj. affording or marked by rest or repose; "the time spent was pleasant and relaxing"; "a restful night"; "a cool and reposeful glen"

compliant

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"

diffused, softened

adj. (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material; "diffused light"

weak, effeminate

adj. characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence: "an effeminate civilization"

euphonious

adj. (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident; "her euphonious Southern speech"

flaccid, flabby

adj. out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"

liquid, gentle

adj. quiet and soothing; "a gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne"

spoilt, spoiled, pampered

adj. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"

bacchanal, riotous, bacchanalian, bacchic, bibulous, carousing, drunken, orgiastic

adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"

beery, smelling of beer

adj. smelling of beer

boozy

adj. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior"

doped, drugged, narcotized

adj. under the influence of narcotics; "knocked out by doped wine"; "a drugged sleep"; "were under the effect of the drugged sweets"; "in a stuperous narcotized state"

half-seas-over, half seas over

adj. British informal for `intoxicated'

hopped-up, stoned

adj. under the influence of narcotics

aged, ripened

adj. of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature well-aged cheeses"

overripe

adj. too ripe and beginning to turn soft

autumnal

adj. characteristic of late maturity verging on decline; "a serene autumnal mood"

ripe

adj. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"

easygoing, degage, easy-going, laid-back, dégagé

adj. (relaxed)

hypotonic

adj. (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension

quiet, quiescent

adj. marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"

unstrained

adj. not placed under psychological stress; "the campaign would not leave party loyalties unstrained"

green, immature, unripe, unripened

adj. not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"

naive, unsophisticated, inexperienced, callow

adj. lacking practical experience or training

agitative, agitating, provoking

adj. causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport"

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