Balmy
['bɑːmɪ] or ['bɑmi]
Definition
(adj.) mild and pleasant; 'balmy days and nights'; 'the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth'; 'a soft breeze' .
(adj.) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; 'it used to drive my husband balmy' .
Typed by Corinne--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
(a.) Producing balm.
(a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Soothing, refreshing, easing, assuaging, lenitive, sedative.[2]. Fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, aromatic, aromatous, ambrosial, spicy, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented.
Editor: Whitney
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AROMATIC]
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- Don't know anything about the north, but am altogether salubrious and balmy, hey, my lady? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A young man, very pale and worn, was lying upon a sofa near the open window, through which came the rich scent of the garden and the balmy summer air. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, it was morning; the bright, balmy morning of summer; the minutest leaf, the smallest blade of grass, was instinct with life. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As the air and waters were tranquil and balmy, so were our minds steeped in quiet. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The twilight was too calm, its breath too balmy to be yet excluded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is somewhere about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and a balmy fragrance of warm tea hovers in Cook's Court. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Rena