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gentleadjective not harsh or stern especially in nature or effectuse a gentle detergent on that delicate silk blouse her gentle ways balmy, benign, bland, delicate, light, mellow, mild, nonabrasive, soft, soothing, tender calm, pacific, peaceful, placid, quiet, serene, tranquilclement, compassionate, easy, lenient, mercifulbuffering, cushioning, emollient, softeningsleek, slick, smooth abrasive, caustic, coarse, hard, harsh, rough, scathing, stern, ungentle exquisite, fierce, intense, powerful, severeforceful, forcible, savage, violentroughened, rugged, strongabrading, irritating, rougheninggrim, gruff, rude, stiffheavy-handed, oppressive, pitiless, tyrannical(also tyrannic) marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too lowwhisk the egg yolks in a double boiler set over a gentle heat balmy, clement, equable, genial, mild, moderate, soft, temperate clear, cloudless, fair, rainless, sunny, sunshinycalm, halcyon, peaceful, placid, tranquildelightful, fine, pleasant harsh, inclement, intemperate, severe blustering, blustery, breezy, gusty, rough, squally, stormy, windymisty, rainy, showerybleak, cloudy, dismal, foggy, gloomy, gray(also grey), hazy, overcast, sunlessbitter, dirty, foul, nasty, raw of high birth, rank, or stationloved reading about the days when gentle lords and ladies danced at fancy balls aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, grand, great, highborn, highbred, noble, patrician, silk-stocking, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn high, lofty, superiorelevated, ennobled, exaltedgentlemanly, kingly, knightly, ladylike, lordly, princely, queenly, regal, royalhigh-level, senior baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, low, lower-class, lowly, mean, nonaristocratic, plebeian, ungenteel inferior, knavishbastard, illegitimateordinary, plainabased, degradedjunior, subordinate not loud in pitch or volumethe mother spoke in a gentle voice to her child dull, low, quiet, soft dead, silent, stillcalm, dreamy, hushed, peaceful, restful, serene, soothing, stilly, tranquilmuffled, muted, softened, toned (down) blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, earsplitting, loud, overloud, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, sonorous, stentorian, thundering, thunderous brazen, crashing, dinning, discordant, noisy, obstreperous, raucous, rip-roaring, vociferousgrating, harsh, shrill, squealing, stridentclarion, clear, trumpetlike a man or woman of high birth or social positionthe archbishop treated both the gentles and the commoners with respect and kindness aristocrat, blue blood, gentleperson, noble, patrician socialite, swellmagnate, magnifico, mogul, nabobgentlefolk(also gentlefolks) canaille, commoner, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, roturierboor, fellah, peasant, peon to lessen the anger or agitation ofemployees soon learned that their hot-tempered boss needed to be gentled several times a day appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate calm, comfort, console, content, hush, quiet, soothe, tranquilize(also tranquillize)endear (to), ingratiatedelight, gladden, gratify, pleaseadulate, blarney, flatter, overpraise, soft-soapquench, sate, satiate, satisfycater (to), humor, indulgeblandish, cajole, coax, sweet-talk, wheedlebaby, coddle, mollycoddle, pamper, spoildulcify, sweeten anger, enrage, incense, inflame(also enflame), infuriate, ire, madden, outrage aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, cross, exasperate, gall, get, grate, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pique, put out, rankle, rile, roil, ruffle, vexprovoke, rouseharass, harry, persecute, pesteragitate, discomfort, distress, disturb, fret, perturb, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worryaffront, insult, offend, slight to touch or handle in a tender or loving mannersoothingly gentled his cat's head as she was being treated by the vet caress, fondle, love, pat, pet, stroke bill, canoodle, cuddle, neck, nestle, nose, nuzzle, snuggle, spoonfeel up, pawcradle, embrace, enfold, hugbounce, dandleknead, massagebaby, coddle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil to lessen the shock ofadding a bit of sugar to the salsa will gentle the hot spiciness of the chili peppers buffer, cushion, soften baffle, dampen, deaden, dull, obtundmoderate, modulate, temperallay, alleviate, assuage, easelighten, mitigate, relieve heighten, intensify, sharpen in the 13th century |