Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb melt
6 senses of melt
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down -- (reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun")
=> dissolve, resolve, break up -- (cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water")
Sense 2
dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt -- (become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat")
=> liquefy, flux, liquify -- (become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied")
Sense 3
mellow, melt, mellow out -- (become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed")
=> change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")
Sense 4
melt, meld -- (lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene")
=> blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge -- (mix together different elements; "The colors blend well")
Sense 5
fade, melt -- (become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk")
=> weaken -- (become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days")
Sense 6
melt, disappear, evaporate -- (become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance")
=> weaken -- (become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days")
Antonyms of adj melted
1 sense of melted
Sense 1
melted (vs. unmelted), liquid, liquified -- (changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow")
unmelted (vs. melted) -- (not melted; "streets unpassable because of piles of unmelted snow")
=> frozen -- (not thawed)
=> undissolved -- (retaining a solid form; "undissolved sugar in the bottom of the cup")
Similarity of adj melted
1 sense of melted
Sense 1
melted (vs. unmelted), liquid, liquified -- (changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow")
=> dissolved -- ((of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form; "add the dissolved gelatin")
=> fusible -- (capable of being melted and fused)
=> molten, liquefied, liquified -- (reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock")
=> thawed -- (no longer frozen solid; "the thawed ice was treacherous")
Also See-> unfrozen#1