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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



... circle, and listen to wondrous tales as they are passed around. There is nothing to disturb the magnificent silence save an occasional soughing of the fitful breeze in the tops of the towering pines, or the gentle babbling of some tiny rivulet as its water soothingly flows over the rounded pebbles in its bed. There is a charm in the environment of such a spot that will photograph its picture on the memory as the gem of all the varied ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... prepared to accept the new order of things under which her children's future was to be formed; wherein she showed her native adaptability, the readiness to fall into line, which is one of the most charming traits of her gentle, self-effacing nature. ...
— The Promised Land • Mary Antin
... considered. No life can more conduce to virtue and a healthful state of body and mind than that which the industrious settler in the country leads out here. He has hard work and rough living, may be; but what is that, whether he be gentle or simple, compared to what he would have had to endure, had he without fortune remained idle at home? That is the question all settlers must ask themselves over and over again, whenever they get out of sorts ...
— The Log House by the Lake - A Tale of Canada • William H. G. Kingston
... waters of the sea are said to have been greatly agitated. The disturbance seems generally, as in the case of Concepcion, to have been of two kinds: first, at the instant of the shock, the water swells high up on the beach with a gentle motion, and then as quietly retreats; secondly, some time afterwards, the whole body of the sea retires from the coast, and then returns in waves of overwhelming force. The first movement seems to be an immediate consequence of the earthquake affecting ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... of womankind, in one shape or another, as a necessity of existence, and by the society of womankind no one means merely the daily and hourly social intercourse which consists in exchanging the same set of remarks half a dozen times a day with as many beings of gentle sex who, to the careless eye of ordinary man, differ from each other in dress rather than in face or thought. There are eminently manly men, that is to say men fearless, strong, honourable and active, to whom the common five o'clock tea presents as much distraction and offers as much womanly ...
— Don Orsino • F. Marion Crawford


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