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Meaning of மென்மையான in English

  • Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
  • Producing balm.
  • Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.
  • Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
  • Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.
  • Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature."
  • Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.
  • Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.
  • Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.
  • Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.
  • Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.
  • Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.
  • Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.
  • Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  • Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.
  • Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.
  • A choice dainty; a delicacy.
  • A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
  • Somewhat genteel.
  • Heathenish; pagan.
  • Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  • Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.
  • A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.
  • Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.
  • Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .
  • One well born; a gentleman.
  • A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.
  • A dipterous larva used as fish bait.
  • To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.
  • To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.
  • To make kind and docile, as a horse.
  • Somewhat lank.
  • Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
  • Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
  • Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
  • Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
  • Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.
  • Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.
  • Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.
  • Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.
  • Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.
  • Smoothly.
  • The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.
  • That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.
  • To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.
  • To free from obstruction; to make easy.
  • To free from harshness; to make flowing.
  • To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
  • To give a smooth or calm appearance to.
  • To ease; to regulate.
  • To flatter; to use blandishment.
  • One who, or that which, smooths.
  • of Smooth
  • fr. Smooth, v.
  • To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
  • To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
  • Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
  • To be suffocated or stifled.
  • To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
  • Stifling smoke; thick dust.
  • A state of suppression.
  • Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.
  • Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.
  • Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.
  • Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.
  • Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.
  • Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.
  • Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.
  • Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.
  • Gentle in action or motion; easy.
  • Weak in character; impressible.
  • Somewhat weak in intellect.
  • Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers.
  • Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.
  • Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.
  • Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.
  • Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.
  • A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
  • Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
  • Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

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