GENTLE Synonyms

• willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

• ready and willing to be taught

• easily handled or managed

• having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

• a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

• agreeable, conducive to comfort

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation

• showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.

• not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• diffusing warmth and friendliness

• disposed to please

• diffusing warmth and friendliness

• intending or showing kindness

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

• generous in providing aid to others

• generous in assistance to the poor

• (of weather) free from storm or wind

• steadiness of mind under stress

• wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• make calm or still

• make steady

• become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation

• cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

• showing or having compassion

• share the suffering of

• showing concern for the rights and feelings of others

• exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

• marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

• easily broken or damaged or destroyed

• easily hurt

• developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

• of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

• diffusing warmth and friendliness

• agreeable, conducive to comfort

• characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit

• characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects

• exhibiting courtesy and politeness

• disposed to bestow favors

• tolerant or lenient

• not strict

• characterized by tolerance and mercy

• moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• mild and pleasant

• behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner

• enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance

• a person who requires medical care

• the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

• not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war

• peacefully resistant in response to injustice

• affording physical relief

• freeing from fear and anxiety

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer