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Adjective: mellowed  me-lowd
  1. Having a full and pleasing flavour through proper aging
    "mellowed fruit"
    - mellow
     
  2. Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
    "mellowed wisdom"
    - mellow
Verb: mellow  me-low
  1. Soften, make mellow
    "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"
     
  2. Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
    "With age, he mellowed"; "With age, he mellowed out"
    - melt, mellow out
     
  3. Make or grow (more) mellow
    "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"

See also: age [], mature, mellowing, ripe

Type of: change, soften

Encyclopedia: Mellow