Mild

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  • adjective. Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force.
  • adjective. Not extreme.
  • adjective. Warm and full of sunshine; pleasant.
  • adjective. Not severe or acute.
  • adjective. Easily molded, shaped, or worked; malleable.
  • intransitive verb. To diminish or decrease. Used of the wind or a storm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Mildness; gentleness.
  • To become mild.
  • To make merciful.
  • To pity; pardon.
  • Possessing softness or gentleness of disposition; soft-mannered; kindly disposed; good-tempered.
  • Exercising gentleness in conduct or action; not harsh or unfeeling; considerate; conciliatory.
  • Marked by softness or kindness; gentle in character, method, or appearance; manifesting or expressing mildness; mollifying; tranquil; placid: as, mild words or manners; a mild rebuke; a mild aspect.
  • Gentle or moderate in force, operation, or effect; not harsh or irritating; emollient; bland; genial: as, mild medicine; mild winds; a mild remedy.
  • Moderate in quality or degree; of mitigated force; weak in kind; free from harshness or roughness; hence, not hard to endure, manage, etc.: as, mild fruit; mild dissipation; mild efforts.
  • Hence, new; not having gained the taste that comes by keeping: said of malt liquors: as, mild ale
  • See the quotation.
  • [Mild forms the first element in a number of compounds of obvious signification: for example, mild-flavored, mild-looking, mild-mannered, mild-spirited, mild-tempered.]
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. 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
  • adjective. steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened.
  • adjective. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Gentle and not easily provoked:
  • noun. A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. mild and pleasant
  • adjective. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
  • adjective. moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
  • Word Usage
    "But it wasn't until she began talking with fellow patients that she heard the term mild traumatic brain injury."
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