Mild

mild
    adj 1: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from
           extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever";
           "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild
           criticism" [ant: {intense}]
    2: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or
       even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing" [syn:
       {meek}, {mild}, {modest}]
    3: mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was
       mild and conducive to life or growth"; "a soft breeze" [syn:
       {balmy}, {mild}, {soft}]
    

Mild \Mild\ (m[imac]ld), a. [Compar. {Milder}; superl.
   {Mildest}.] [AS. milde; akin to OS. mildi, D. & G. mild, OHG.
   milti, Icel. mildr, Sw. & Dan. mild, Goth. milds; cf. Lith.
   melas dear, Gr. ? gladdening gifts.]
   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; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a
   mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
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         The rosy morn resigns her light
         And milder glory to the noon.            --Waller.
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         Adore him as a mild and merciful Being.  --Rogers.
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   {Mild steel}, or {Low steel}, steel that has but little
      carbon in it and is not readily hardened.
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   Syn: Soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant;
        placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement;
        mollifying; lenitive; assuasive. See {Gentle}.
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155 Moby Thesaurus words for "mild":
      Saturnian, accepting, aestival, affable, agreeable, amiable, balmy,
      benign, benignant, bland, blood-hot, blood-warm, bonhomous, bright,
      broken, calid, calm, calming, chastened, choice, clement,
      compassionate, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, dainty, dead,
      deferential, delicate, demulcent, dilute, diluted, docile,
      domesticated, dovelike, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, emollient,
      equable, equatorial, exquisite, fade, faint, fair, flat,
      flavorless, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, genial, gentle,
      good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, gruelly, halcyon,
      housebroken, humane, humble, inane, indifferent, indulgent,
      inoffensive, insipid, jejune, judicious, kind, kindly, lamblike,
      lax, lenient, lenitive, luke, lukewarm, meek, mellow, mellowy,
      merciful, mild as milk, milk-and-water, moderate, modest,
      mollified, mollifying, nonresistive, nonrigid, nonviolent,
      obeisant, obliging, pacific, pacifistic, pappy, passive, patient,
      peaceable, peaceful, placid, pleasant, prudent, pulpy, quiet,
      room-temperature, sapless, savorless, serene, smooth, sober, soft,
      soft as putty, softened, softening, soothing, spiceless, stale,
      subdued, submissive, subservient, subtropical, summery, sunny,
      sunshiny, sweet, sweet-tempered, tame, tamed, tasteless, temperate,
      tender, tepid, thermal, thermic, thin, toasty, tolerant, tractable,
      tranquil, tropical, unassuming, unflavored, unfrozen, unsavory,
      vapid, warm, warm as toast, warmish, washy, watered, watered-down,
      watery, weak, well-natured, whisper-soft, wishy-washy, yielding