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Gentle   /dʒˈɛntəl/  /dʒˈɛnəl/   Listen
Gentle

adjective
(compar. gentler; superl. gentlest)
1.
Soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe.  Synonym: soft.  "A vein of gentle irony" , "Poked gentle fun at him"
2.
Having or showing a kindly or tender nature.  "Her gentle manner was comforting" , "A gentle sensitive nature" , "Gentle blue eyes"
3.
Quiet and soothing.  "A gentle nocturne"
4.
Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy.  Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, patrician.  "Aristocratic Bostonians" , "Aristocratic government" , "A blue family" , "Blue blood" , "The blue-blooded aristocracy" , "Of gentle blood" , "Patrician landholders of the American South" , "Aristocratic bearing" , "Aristocratic features" , "Patrician tastes"
5.
Easily handled or managed.  Synonym: docile.
6.
Having little impact.  Synonyms: easy, soft.  "Gentle rain" , "A gentle breeze" , "A soft (or light) tapping at the window"
7.
Marked by moderate steepness.  Synonym: easy.  "A gentle slope"
verb
1.
Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.  Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate.
2.
Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility.  Synonyms: ennoble, entitle.
3.
Stroke soothingly.



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"Gentle" Quotes from Famous Books



... copper ball was placed above a ring gas-burner possessing a great number of small apertures, the burner being connected by a tube with vessels containing the various gases to be examined. By gentle pressure the gases were forced through the orifices of the burner against the copper ball, where each of them, being heated, rose in an ascending column. A thermoelectric pile, entirely screened from the hot ball, was ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... to watch the beautiful cedar bird with his silky plumage, and his smart crest. He is a sociable, gentle bird, who allowed the children to come very near him, as he was perched upon the ...
— Frank and Fanny • Mrs. Clara Moreton
... me by kissing my hand,) is engaging, indeed; if I may hope, that my Pamela's gentle inclination for her persecutor was the strongest motive to her return; and I so much value a voluntary love in the person I would wish for my wife, that I would have even prudence and interest hardly named in comparison with it: And can you ...
— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson
... he's been turned down, and I saw it in his face. Vera was in that cold and lofty mood of hers when nothing counts but the idea she has in mind; no one seeing her so would think she ever again could be gentle or tender—poor Vera, with all her struggles to perfect herself, and yet with so much manner, yes and so much headstrong will, hiding it all. It seemed as if she had called the captain to witness, perhaps to agree in, something she ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... over this gentle slope, it acquired the usual crust of hardened slag. It directed its course towards that point at which Val del Bove opens into the narrow ravine beneath it—there being between the two a deep and almost perpendicular precipice. Arrived at this point, the lava-torrent ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various


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