mellow

/ˈmɛloʊ/

意味: 熟す、丸くなる

例文: Kai mellowed after tea.
　　  カイがお茶のあと落ち着いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: mellow music(穏やかな音楽), mellow flavor(まろやかな味), mellow mood(落ち着いた気分)

定義: 穏やかで落ち着いた状態や性質を表す言葉です。音楽や味、気分などが柔らかく、心地よい感じを指します。人や物が成熟して、角が取れたような状態を示すこともあります。

mellowは約500,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: soften, make mellow
Verb: become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
Verb: make or grow (more) mellow
Adjective: unhurried and relaxed
Adjective: having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
Adjective: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
Adjective: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
Adverb: (obsolete) in a mellow manner

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The wine tastes smooth and mellow.(そのワインは滑らかでまろやかな味がする。)
She has a mellow personality that calms everyone.(彼女はみんなを落ち着かせる穏やかな性格だ。)
The music played a mellow tune all evening.(音楽は一晩中やわらかい曲を演奏していた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: Age and experience mellowed him over the years
Verb: With age, he mellowed
Verb: These apples need to mellow a bit more
Verb: The sun mellowed the fruit
Adjective: a mellow conversation
Adjective: a mellow port
Adjective: mellowed fruit
Adjective: mellow wisdom
Adjective: the peace of mellow age

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): high, laid-back, mellow, mellow out, mellowed, mellowly, melt

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, soften

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acetylate, adjust, alkalinize, americanize, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, barbarize, boil, break, break into, brutalize, calcify, capacitate, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, clinker, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, creolize, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, desalinate, destabilize, develop, die, digest, dim, discolor, dissimilate, distill, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, evaporate, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freshen, gel, gelatinize, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, harden, have, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, macerate, make, mature, mellow, modernize, modify, mold, mollify, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, oxidise, oxidize, pall, pass, plasticize, play out, prim, professionalize, promote, purify, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repress, resume, reticulate, rise, roll, salinate, saponify, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, smoothen, soften, solarize, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steepen, stiffen, stratify, strengthen, sublime, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, swing, synthesize, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, warm, warm up

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語):

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: high, mellowing, mellowness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

英検準1級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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