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| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a mild or kind nature |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, compassionate, considerate, cool*, docile, domesticated, easy, genial, humane, kindly, lenient, manageable, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, pacific, peaceful, placid, pleasant, pleasing, pliable, quiet, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, tame, taught, temperate, tender, tractable, trained, warmhearted, biddable, cultivated, disciplined, dove-like, laid back, sweet-tempered |
| Notes: | genteel means marked by refinement in taste and manners; a gentile is a person who does not acknowledge your God or denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; gentle means soft and mild or having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
| Antonyms: | crude, rough, troubled, unkind, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mild, temperate in effect on senses |
| Synonyms: | balmy, bland, calm, clement, delicate, easy, faint, feeble, gradual, halcyon, imperceptible, lenient, light, low, mellow, mild, moderate, peaceful, placid, quiet, sensitive, serene, slight, slow, smooth, soft, soothing, subdued, tender, tranquil, untroubled, hushed, low-pitched, low-toned, muted |
| Antonyms: | harsh, loud, odorous, putrid, rough, sharp, strong |
| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of noble birth |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, blue-blooded*, courteous, cultured, elegant, genteel, noble, polished, polite, refined, well-bred, Brahmin, highborn, highbred, upper-class, well-born |
| Antonyms: | crude, low |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm, clubby |
| Antonyms: | complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, childlike, complacent, cool, ductile, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, well-behaved, willing, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, docious, easily influenced, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | domesticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tame; habituate |
| Synonyms: | accustom, break, break in, breed, bring up, bust, corral, familiarize, gentle, herd, hitch, naturalize, raise, reclaim, round up, subdue, teach, train, yoke, acclimatize, domiciliate, housetrain |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey*, effete, enervated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby*, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sickly, slight, tame, thin, unconvincing, weak, weakened, woozy*, zero*, emasculated, enfeebled, etiolated, out of gas, sapless, strengthless, vitiated, weakly, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tolerant |
| Synonyms: | charitable, clement, considerate, easy, forgiving, gentle, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, lenient, long-suffering, merciful, mild, moderate, patient, thoughtful, being big, going easy on, going easy with, living with, longanimous, soft-shell |
| Antonyms: | impatient, intolerant, merciless, strict, uncontrolled |
| Main Entry: | genial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely nice and happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blithe, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chipper*, congenial, convivial, cordial, easygoing, favorable, friendly, gentle, glad, good-natured, gracious, hearty, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, kind, kindly, merry, neighborly, perky, pleasant, sociable, sunny*, up*, upbeat, upper*, warm, chirpy, enlivening, sunny side up, warm-hearted |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cold, cool, cranky, irritable, moody, unfriendly, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gradual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening slowly, evenly |
| Synonyms: | by degrees, continuous, creeping, even, gentle, graduate, moderate, piecemeal, progressive, regular, slow, steady, successive, unhurried, bit-by-bit, step-by-step |
| Antonyms: | abrupt, infrequent, intermittent, sudden, uneven |
| Main Entry: | halcyon |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy, harmonious, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny, tranquil, untroubled, at peace, palmy |
| Main Entry: | harmless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not injurious or dangerous |
| Synonyms: | gentle, guiltless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, inoperative, kind, manageable, naive, powerless, reliable, safe, sanitary, simple, soft*, sound, sure, trustworthy, controllable, disarmed, hurtless, innoxious, nonirritating, nontoxic, painless, paper-tiger, pussycat, softie, unobjectionable, unoffensive |
| Antonyms: | bad, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, sinful, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, compassionate |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, altruistic, amiable, approachable, benevolent, benign, broad-minded, charitable, clement, considerate, cordial, democratic, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, helpful, human, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, natural, obliging, open-minded, philanthropic, righteous, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, warmhearted, benignant, pitying |
| Antonyms: | cruel, fierce, merciless, uncivilized, unkind, unsympathetic, violent, inhumane, uncompassionate |
| Main Entry: | indulgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lenient, giving |
| Synonyms: | big*, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, considerate, easy, easygoing, favorable, fond, forbearing, gentle, gratifying, kind, kindly, liberal, merciful, mild, permissive, tender, tolerant, understanding, able to live with, going along with, going easy on, overpermissive, soft-shelled |
| Antonyms: | moderate, strict, abstaining, moderating, tempering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous, good |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, altruistic, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big, charitable, clement, compassionate, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, eleemosynary, friendly, gentle, gracious, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, mild, neighborly, obliging, philanthropic, propitious, soft touch, softhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding, all heart, bleeding-heart, bounteous, good-hearted, heart in right place |
| Antonyms: | bad, bitter, cruel, inconsiderate, mean, unfriendly, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | kindly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compassionate, helpful |
| Synonyms: | attentive, beneficial, benevolent, benign, cool, cordial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, hearty, humane, kind, kindhearted, mellow, merciful, mild, neighborly, pleasant, polite, sociable, sympathetic, thoughtful, warm, benignant, good-hearted |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unkindly |
| Main Entry: | leisurely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, unhurried |
| Synonyms: | comfortable, delayed, deliberate, dilatory, easy, free, gentle, laggard, laid-back*, languid, lax, lazy, restful, slack, slow, relaxed, slackened, slow-moving, unhasty |
| Antonyms: | hectic, hurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
| Synonyms: | amiable, benign, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-natured, indulgent, kind, kindly, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, permitting, soft, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding, allowing, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benignant, excusing, favoring, going easy on, humoring, letting, live with, mollycoddling, pampering, pardoning, soft-shell, spoiling |
| Antonyms: | hard, intolerant, restrictive, rigorous, severe, limiting |
| Main Entry: | lowly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, plain |
| Synonyms: | average, base, common, commonplace, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, prosaic, retiring, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, baseborn, cast down, lowborn, proletarian, reverential, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | higher, lofty, noble, pretentious, superior |
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