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adj. Considerate or kindly in disposition; amiable and tender.

adj. Not harsh or severe; mild and soft: a gentle scolding; a gentle tapping at the window.

adj. Easily managed or handled; docile: a gentle horse.

adj. Not steep or sudden; gradual: a gentle incline.

adj. Of good family; wellborn: a child of gentle birth.

adj. Suited to one of good breeding; refined and polite: a gentle greeting to a stranger.

adj. Archaic Noble; chivalrous: a gentle knight.

n. Archaic One of good birth or relatively high station.

v. To make less severe or intense: The peaceful sunset gentled her dreadful mood.

v. To soothe, as by stroking; pacify.

v. To tame or break (a domestic animal, for instance): gentle a horse.

v. To raise to the status of a noble.

adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition

adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe

adj. Docile and easily managed

adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden

adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude

v. to become gentle

v. to ennoble

v. to break; to tame; to domesticate

v. To soothe; to calm.

n. A person of high birth.

n. A maggot used as bait by anglers

adj. Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

adj. Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender

adj. A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation.

adj. Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable.

adj. Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific.

n. One well born; a gentleman.

n. A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

n. A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

v. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

v. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.

v. To make kind and docile, as a horse.

Of good birth or family; well-born; specifically, belonging to the gentry as distinguished from the nobility: as, the studies of noble and gentle youth.

Pertaining to or characteristic of good birth or station; honorable; respectable; refined.

Of well-bred character or quality; gracious; courteous; kindly and considerate; not rough or harsh; mild; soothing: as, a gentle nurse; a gentle nature, manner, voice.

Tame; docile; tractable; peaceable; not wild or refractory: as, a gentle horse or hawk.

Improved by cultivation; ameliorated; domesticated.

Soft; mild in action, performance, or use; not rude or boisterous: as, a gentle breeze; a gentle tap; a gentle tone.

Refreshing; reviving.

Gradual; easy; not steep; moderate in degree; not sharply defined: as, a gentle slope; the gentle curves of a river or a figure.

n. A person of good family; a person of gentle birth; a gentleman.

n. In falconry, a falcon-gentle; a trained hawk: whence one of the names of the common goshawk of Europe, Falco gentilis.

n. A maggot or larva of the flesh-fly, used in fishing.

To make or constitute gentle, or as if gentle; place in the rank of gentlemen; raise from a vulgar or ignoble condition.

To make gentle in manner or appearance; render mild and amiable; soften; subdue: as, to gentle a colt.

adj. having little impact

adj. having or showing a kindly or tender nature

adj. quiet and soothing

adj. easily handled or managed

adj. soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

v. give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

v. stroke soothingly

adj. marked by moderate steepness

"And as, in this battle of thoughts, those which spoke for her won the victory, it seemed to me becoming to address her, and I said this sonnet, which begins, 'A gentle thought '; and I called it _gentle_ because I was speaking to a gentle lady, -- but otherwise it was most vile."

light    kind    soft    tame    tamed    mild    noble    gradual   

gentled    gentles    gentling   

calm    tranquillise    calm down    quieten    lull    still    tranquillize    quiet    tranquilize    pet   

tame    gentle falcon    gentler) sex    the gentle craft    gentle reader   

falcon-gentil   

gentlewoman    gently    gentleness    gentleman   

tame    placid    meek    peaceful    dovelike    pacific    mild    tractable    bland    quiet   

Occidental    Oriental    accidental    coincidental    compartmental    continental    dental    departmental    detrimental    developmental   

soft    mild    affectionate    polite    various    Italian    rough    left    dead