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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.
  2. adj. Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force: a mild pipe tobacco; a mild sedative.
  3. adj. Not extreme: a mild winter storm.
  4. adj. Warm and full of sunshine; pleasant: a mild spring day; mild weather in June.
  5. adj. Not severe or acute: a mild fever.
  6. adj. Easily molded, shaped, or worked; malleable: mild steel.
  7. v. Texas & Virginia To diminish or decrease. Used of the wind or a storm. See Regional Note at fair1.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Possessing softness or gentleness of disposition; soft-mannered; kindly disposed; good-tempered.
  2. Exercising gentleness in conduct or action; not harsh or unfeeling; considerate; conciliatory.
  3. 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.
  4. Gentle or moderate in force, operation, or effect; not harsh or irritating; emollient; bland; genial: as, mild medicine; mild winds; a mild remedy.
  5. 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.
  6. Hence, new; not having gained the taste that comes by keeping: said of malt liquors: as, mild ale
  7. See the quotation.
  8. [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.]
  9. n. Mildness; gentleness.
  10. To become mild.
  11. To make merciful.
  12. To pity; pardon.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Gentle and not easily provoked:
  2. n. UK A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. 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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. mild and pleasant
  2. adj. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
  3. adj. moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme

Etymologies

  1. From Old English milde, from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz; cognate with Old Saxon mildi, Old Frisian milde, West Frisian myld, Dutch mild, Old High German milti (< German mild), Old Norse mildr (< Icelandic mildur, Swedish mild, Danish mild), and Gothic milds; compare Lithuanian melas ‘dear’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English milde; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • she ' "Now one can breathe more easily," said the Knight, putting back his shaggy hair with both hands, and turning his gentle face and large mild eyes to Alice. She thought she had never seen such a strange-looking soldier in all her life. ' Jul 18, 2008

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