gentle

adj

1. kind, kindly, tender, gracious, considerate, thoughtful; indulgent, lenient, clement, humane, merciful, compassionate, tender-hearted, gentlehearted, Fr. gentil; benign, amiable, affable, sweet-tempered.

2. mild, moderate, soothing, easy, soft, zephyr-like, balmy, light, bland, slight; smooth, unruffled, motionless, waveless, undisturbed; tranquil, calm, still, quiet, untroubled; halcyon, halcyonian, peaceful, pacific, irenic, reposeful, restful.

3. genteel, well-born, high-born, Sl. blue-blooded, noble; artistocratic, armigerous, patrician, royal, princely, titled, thoroughbred; of gentle birth, of good family, of good extraction, of superior descent.

4. respectable, honorable, proper, correct, suitable, acceptable, seemly; fitting, Fr. comme il faut. becoming; graceful, Scot. genty, fine, delicate; polished, refined, finished, cultivated, well-educated, well-schooled, well-trained; suave, sophisticated, urbane, cosmopolitan, worldly; polite, civil, courteous, decorous, well-mannered, mannerly, courtly, gracious; chivalric, chivalrous, well-bred, gentlemanly, gentlemanlike, ladylike.

5. meek, manageable, docile, tractable, easily handled; tame, trained, schooled, broken; restrained, controlled, curbed; harmless, unaggressive, unbelligerent.

v

6. mollify, pacify, appease; still, smooth, quiet, tranquilize, lull; soothe, stroke, pet, pat.

7. tame, break, subdue, dominate, gain control over, master.