mild
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mild/mʌɪld/
▶adjective
- 1 not severe, harsh, or serious.
■ (of weather) moderately warm.
■ not sharp or strong in flavour.
■ (of a medicine or cosmetic) acting gently.
- 2 not intense or extreme: mild surprise.
- 3 gentle and not easily provoked.
– derivatives
mildish adjective,
mildly adverb,
mildness noun.
mildish adjective,
mildly adverb,
mildness noun.
– origin OE milde, of Gmc origin.
'mild' also found in these Oxford entries:
age hardening
- Asperger's syndrome
- aw
- Bel Paese
- betel
- blessed
- boric acid
- bother
- Brie
- brown ale
- by
- Caerphilly
- cascabel
- chickenpox
- chlorhexidine
- clement
- cowpox
- curd cheese
- cytomegalovirus
- daft
- dash
- distaste
- drat
- dysthymia
- echovirus
- euphemism
- eyebrow
- flip
- flipping
- föhn
- foreshock
- French mustard
- gee
- genial
- gentle
- green pepper
- halloumi
- hang
- havarti
- hop
- hypomania
- Jarlsberg
- korma
- lamb
- Lancashire
- Leicester
- lenient
- lenis
- manna
- mascarpone
