| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gentle, temperate, nonirritating |
Synonyms: |
balmy, benign, benignant, blah*, bland, breezy, calm, choice, clear, clement, cool, dainty, delicate, demulcent, easy, emollient, exquisite, faint, fine, flat, genial, ho-hum, lenient, lenitive, light, lukewarm, medium, mellow, moderate, mollifying, nothing, nothing much, pabulum, pacific, peaceful, placid, smooth, soft, soothing, sunny, tempered, tepid, untroubled, vanilla, warm, weak, wimpy |
Antonyms: |
fierce, harsh, rough, violent |
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, pleasant in personality |
Synonyms: |
amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, mild-mannered, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm |
Antonyms: |
agitated, flappable, nervous |
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm |
Antonyms: |
complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | agreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, dandy, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, fair, fine, gratifying, hunky-dory, mild, nice, peach, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasureful, pussycat, ready, satisfying, spiffy, swell*, to one's liking, to one's taste, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | balmy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comfortable with respect to weather |
Synonyms: |
mild, moderate, moist, pleasant, refreshing, summerlike, summery, temperate, tropical |
Antonyms: |
cool, inclement, wintery |
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kindly |
Synonyms: |
amiable, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, complaisant, congenial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, goodhearted, gracious, kind, liberal, merciful, mild, obliging, sympathetic |
Antonyms: |
hateful, hostile, hurtful, injurious, malignant, unkind |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sunny, clear (weather) |
Synonyms: |
clement, cloudless, fair, favorable, limpid, lucid, mild, pellucid, pleasant, translucent, transparent, unclouded |
Antonyms: |
black, cloudy, dark, dreary, dusky, gloomy, murky |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, quiet (inanimate) |
Synonyms: |
at a standstill, at peace, bland, breathless, breezeless, bucolic, cool, halcyon, harmonious, hushed, in order, inactive, low-key, mild, motionless, pacific, pastoral, placid, quiescent, reposeful, reposing, restful, rural, serene, slow, smooth, soothing, still, stormless, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, waveless, windless |
Antonyms: |
excited, fierce, frenzied, rough, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | clement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forgiving |
Synonyms: |
benevolent, benign, benignant, charitable, compassionate, easy, forbearing, gentle, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kind-hearted, kindly, lenient, merciful, mild, soft-hearted, sympathetic, tender, tolerant |
Antonyms: |
hard, hard-hearted, harsh, mean, unforgiving |