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MILD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mild and pleasant
Example:
a soft breeze
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
clement ((of weather or climate) physically mild)
Derivation:
mildness (good weather with comfortable temperatures)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
Example:
mild criticism
Classified under:
Similar:
gentle; soft (soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe)
mild-mannered (behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner)
moderate; temperate (not extreme)
Also:
moderate (being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme)
temperate (not extreme in behavior)
Attribute:
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Antonym:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Derivation:
mildness (acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
Example:
meek and self-effacing
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful)
Context examples:
They found that individuals who reported symptoms of hard-to-treat depression before the study had a mild to moderate reduction in those symptoms afterward, similar to the effectiveness of antidepressants.
(Anti-inflammatory Drugs Also Fight Depression, Voanews)
Current screening programmes for newborn babies are good at picking up moderate-to-profound levels of hearing loss, but not at detecting mild hearing loss.
(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)
More than half (58%) of participants with severe head injury showed microbleeds as did 27% of mild cases.
(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)
A small study from 2016 in people with mild to moderate dementia found an association between gum disease and higher rates of cognitive decline.
(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The symptoms and levels of disability can range from mild to severe.
(Gene Disruptions Associated with Autism Risk, NIH)
Monkeys treated 3 days after virus exposure—at which point they showed evidence of advanced disease—developed only mild symptoms and fully recovered.
(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)
The insight gained in the new study is important step toward mustering a milder mustard or building a bitter-free broccoli.
(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)
Within two months of receiving the injections, pain decreased in all of the participants, with 11 out of 13 subjects reporting that their pain was mild or had disappeared.
(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)
They also hope to explore whether its effects vary according to people’s age or their genetic risk for Alzheimer’s, and it’s potential to help with mild depression.
(Daily Consumption of Turmeric Could Improve Memory, Mood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is characterized by the presence of mild epithelial atypia.
(Bile Duct Papillary Neoplasm with Low Grade Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
