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pleasant, cheerful, happy, jovial, felicitous: Patrick seems to
have become more mellow with age.
--v. 5 mature, ripen, age, season, sweeten, develop, improve
(with age), soften: Frank has mellowed since taking up golf.
melodious adj. sweet(-sounding), dulcet, tuneful, euphonious, harmonious,
melodic, lyrical, musical, mellifluous, mellisonant, silvery,
golden: I agreed with her father that Sylvia has a most
melodious voice.
melodramatic
adj. sensational, sensationalistic, dramatic, stagy,
theatrical, emotionalistic, (over-)sentimental,
(over-)sentimentalized, overdrawn, overworked, overwrought,
overdone, exaggerated, blood-and-thunder, histrionic, Colloq
hammy, US schmaltzy, hokey: The slightest thing that happened
to him he blew up with melodramatic effect to elicit Maria's
sympathy.
melody n. 1 song, tune, air, strain, measure, theme, refrain: Isn't
that the melody from Mimi's aria in La BohŠme ? 2 tunefulness,
melodiousness, euphoniousness, euphony, harmony, musicality,
sweetness: The older music seems to be marked by so much more
melody than rock 'n' roll.
melt v. 1 soften, thaw, liquefy, fuse, dissolve, liquidize,
deliquesce: You'd better eat that ice-cream before it melts. 2
soften, thaw, mollify, assuage, touch, move, disarm, mellow:
The look on the child's face melted his icy reserve. 3 Usually,
melt into. blend, fade, merge, disappear, dissolve, shrink: As
soon as the police arrived, Phyllis tried to melt into the
background. 4 melt away. disappear, dissolve, vanish, evaporate,
go away, fade, pass, decline, decrease, shrink, dwindle,
diminish: When the company began to make a profit, all his
previous reservations melted away.
member n. colleague, associate, fellow: I am going to propose Fred as
a member of the club.
memento n. 1 souvenir, keepsake, remembrance, relic, trophy, token: I
kept his medals as a memento of our time together. 2 mementos.
memorabilia: There will be an auction of war mementos next