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  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Of a kindly, considerate character.
Synonyms:  mild, soft, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Free from severity or violence, as in movement.
Synonyms:  balmy, delicate, faint, mild, smooth, soft
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Easily managed or handled.
Synonyms:  docile, meek, mild, tame
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  amiable, benign, bland, calm, chivalric, chivalrous, clement, compassionate, conciliatory, considerate, courteous, courtly, cultivated, deferential, docile, easy, faint, fair, feeble, genteel, gradual, harmless, high-born, honorable, humane, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, mild, moderate, pacific, pat, peaceable, peaceful, placid, pleasant, polite, quiet, sensitive, serene, soft, soothing, subdued, sweet, tame, tamed, tender, tractable, tranquil, unobtrusive, well-born
Antonyms:  brusque, drastic, harsh, indocile, intractable, refractory, rigorous, rough, severe, vicious
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  chivalry, docility, gentility, gentleness, leniency, lenity, mansuetude, mildness, refinement
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  gentle
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To make (an animal) docile.
Synonyms:  break, bust, master, tame
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  domesticate
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To train to live with and be of use to people.
Synonyms:  domesticize, master, tame
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  gradual
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Not steep or abrupt.
Synonyms:  easy, moderate
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  light
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Of small intensity.
Synonyms:  moderate, slight, soft
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  pacify
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To ease the anger or agitation of.
Synonyms:  appease, assuage, calm, conciliate, dulcify, mollify, placate, propitiate, soften, soothe, sweeten
Idioms:  pour oil on troubled water

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Cite This Source   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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