Soften, make mellow.

Roget 673: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation.    set in order, put in order etc. (arrange) 60; forecast etc. (plan) 626; prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone etc. (begin) 66.    roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape etc. (form) 240.    elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture etc. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate^†; maturate.    equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim^†, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust etc. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.    train etc. (teach) 537; inure etc. (habituate) 613; breed; prepare for &c.; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to etc. (facilitate) 705.    set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.    prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship etc. (learn) 539; lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter [Fr.], prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to.    guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions etc. 637; make investments; keep on foot.    be prepared, be ready etc. adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry; lie in wait for etc. (expect) 507; anticipate etc. (foresee) 510; principiis obstare [Lat.]; veniente occurrere morbo [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 658: improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.    advance etc. (progress) 282; ascend etc. 305; increase etc. 35; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover etc. 660.    be better etc. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.    render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify^†.    improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.    promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster etc. 707; invigorate etc. (strengthen) 159.    touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair etc. (restore) 660; put in order etc. (arrange) 60.    review, revise; make corrections, make improvements etc. n.; doctor etc. (remedy) 662; purify, etc. 652.    relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.    reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.    view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.    palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil etc. 36.    ... show more

Roget 324: render soft etc. adj.; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash.    bend, yield, relent, relax, give.    plasticize'.    ... show more

Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial:
— With age, he mellowed.

synonyms: mellow out, melt.

Roget 144: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse^†; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.    convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form etc. 240; remodel, new model, refound^†, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.    ... show more

Make or grow (more) mellow.

Unhurried and relaxed:
— A mellow conversation.

synonym: laid-back.

Roget 174: moderate; lenient etc. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered etc. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.    unexciting, unirritating^†; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic etc. 683; sedative; antiorgastic^†, anaphrodisiac^†.    mild as mother's milk; milk and water.    ... show more

Roget 959: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious^†, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication etc. n.; temulent^†, temulentive^†; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou^†, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant^†, glorious; potulent^†; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled^†, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy^†, muddled, muzzy^†, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous^†, dead drunk.    woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.    inter pocula^†; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.    drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.    drunken, bibacious^†, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 673: preparing etc. v.; in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil; under consideration etc. (plan) 626; brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.    precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional, inchoate, under revision; preliminary etc. (precedent) 62.    prepared etc. v.; in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in working order, in working gear; snug; in practice.    ripe, mature, mellow; pukka^†; practiced etc. (skilled) 698; labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.    in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred.    in utrumque paratus [Lat.], semper paratus [Lat.]; on the alert etc. (vigilant) 459; at one's post.    ... show more

Roget 428: colored etc. v.; colorific^†, tingent^†, tinctorial^†; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous^†; tingible^†.    bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded^†; rich, gorgeous; gay.    gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.    mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.    ... show more

Roget 324: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile^†, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious^†, inelastic; aluminous^†; remollient^†.    yielding etc. v.; flabby, limp, flimsy.    doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony^†.    flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous^†, medullary [Anat.], argillaceous, mellow.    soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as chicken.    ... show more

Roget 128: aged; old etc. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile^†; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting etc. (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time.    older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn.    turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal, etc. (ancient) 124; gerontic.    ... show more

Roget 413: harmonious, harmonical^†; in concord etc. n., in tune, in concert; unisonant^†, concentual^†, symphonizing^†, isotonic, homophonous^†, assonant; ariose^†, consonant.    measured, rhythmical, diatonic^†, chromatic, enharmonic^†.    melodious, musical; melic^†; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet, canorous^†; mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery; euphonious, euphonic, euphonical^†; symphonious; enchanting etc. (pleasure-giving) 829; fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned.    ... show more

Polish: luzacki

Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging:
— A mellow port.
— Mellowed fruit.

synonym: mellowed.

Softened through age or experience:
— Mellow wisdom.
— The peace of mellow age.

synonym: mellowed.

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

synonym: high.

In a mellow manner.

synonym: mellowly.