migrate, v. 1. emigrate, expatriate, decamp, take leave, go forth, sally or fare forth, take passage; immigrate, transmigrate, move, resettle, relocate, transfer, make a change, get a change of scenery, move out, get out, Inf. up and move; pilgrimage, colonize, go overseas, pull up stakes, Inf. take off, Inf. look for greener pastures, Inf. follow the rainbow; travel, trek, journey, fare, go; voyage, ply, sail, push off, set sail, ship out; wing one's way, take flight or wing, jaunt, peregrinate; take to the road, go on the road, Inf. hit the trail, Inf. ride the rods or rails, Inf. ride the shoe-leather or hobnail express; hike, hie oneself to, make one's way, tramp, Dial, traipse, backpack, Sl. schlepp. 2. commute, shuttle, ferry, pass, drift; move on, move along, go along, wend one's way, direct one's course, bend one's step or course, transit, pass through; wander, roam, nomadize, range, All Inf. knock about or around, hitchhike, hitch, make the rounds, Sl. catch a ride, Sl. thumb or bum a ride.
migratory, adj. 1. migrating, migrational, trans-migratory, going, moving, trekking, passing, peregrine, peregrinative; immigrant, emigrant, transient, transitory, unsettled, displaced, uprooted, dislocated, deracinated; moving, transferring; outgoing, incoming.
2. itinerant, itinerating, traveling, journeying, wayfaring, peregrinating, peripatetic; commuting, shuttling, circuit-riding, strolling, floating, drifting, wandering, roving, roaming, rambling; nomad, nomadic, gypsy, gypsy-like; vagrant, vagabond, footloose, footloose and fancy free, touring, gadding, Dial, traipsing, flitting; living in one's hat, living out of a suitcase, having itchy feet, having sand in one's shoe; on the move, on the go, on the trail, making the rounds.
mild, adj. 1. tender, gentle, soft, soft-hearted, tender-hearted, sensitive, sympathetic, empathetic, compassionate, humane, forbearing, gracious, considerate, tactful, kind, civil; conciliatory, nonviolent, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pacifistic; merciful, lenient, clement, easy, easy-going, forgiving; easy-natured, gentle as a lamb, placid, serene, good-natured, good-tempered, amiable, affable, genial, bonhomous, easy to get along with, calm, tranquil, docile, tame, mild as milk or mother's milk; uncomplaining, unassertive, passive, nonopposing, submissive; unassuming, meek, quiet, subdued, tractable, yielding, indulgent, melting; mellow, temperate, pleasant.
2. (all of weather) sunny, fair, balmy, halcyon, sunshiny, summery, estival; pretty, lovely.
3. average, moderate, neutral; weak, tepid, lukewarm; bland, insipid, tasteless, spiceless, unflavored, wishy-washy, vapid, inane, jejune, flat, Sl. blah.
mildew, n. fungus, mold, blight, rust, blast; discoloration, stain, smut, dry-rot, rot, Inf. crud; must, mustiness, fu'stiness, fetidness, Sl. funkiness.
mildness, n. 1. gentleness, tenderness, softness; amiability, affability, geniality, cordiality, graciousness, kindheartedness, benignity, benignancy, mansue-tude, kindliness, warmth, milk of human kindness, sweetness; forbearance, patience, toleration, leniency, lenity, clemency, humaneness, compassion; indulgence, humoring, compliance, complaisance, obligingness, agreeableness; moderation, moderateness, steadiness, evenness, unexcessiveness; meekness, tameness, peaceableness, quietness, calmness, serenity, tranquillity, calm; docility, tractability, yieldingness, flexibility.
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