Word Meanings - MILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild

Additional info about word: MILD

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; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity. The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. Waller. Adore him as a mild and merciful Being. Rogers. Mild, or Low, steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened. Syn. -- Soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant; placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement; mollifying; lenitive; assuasive. See Gentle. (more info) OS. mildi, D. & G. mild, OHG. milti, Icel. mildr, Sw. & Dan. mild, Goth. milds; cf. Lith. melas dear, Gr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MILD)

• Bland
• Soft
• mild
• gentle
• complaisant
• courteous
• affable
• gracious
• tender
• benign
• Gentle
• Courteous
• polite
• highbred
• bland
• tame
• docile
• amiable
• meek
• soft
• placid
• Meek
• Mild
• submissive
• modest
• yielding
• unassuming
• Pacific
• Conciliatory
• appeasing
• calm
• tranquil
• peaceful
• Peaceable
• unwarlike
• inoffensive
• quiet
• innocuous
• unquarrelsome
• serene

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MILD)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to MILD)

• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• TRANQUIL
  Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• PACIFICATION
  The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
• PACIFICATORY
  Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.