What is gentle?

More definitions of "gentle":

• (adj): Quiet and soothing.
  Example: "A gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne"

• (adj): Having or showing a kindly or tender nature.
  Example: "The gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes"

• (adj): Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy.
  Example: "Of gentle blood"
  Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, patrician

• (verb): Stroke soothingly.

• (verb): Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.
  Synonyms: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gruntle

• (verb): Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility.
  Synonyms: ennoble, entitle

• (adj): Soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe.
  Example: "A gentle reprimand"; "a vein of gentle irony"; "poked gentle fun at him"

• (adj): Easily handled or managed.
  Example: "A gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
  Synonyms: docile

• (adj): Marked by moderate steepness.
  Example: "A gentle slope"
  Synonyms: easy

Famous quotes containing the word gentle:

“So the gentle poet’s name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
—Frank Muir (b. 1920)

“O gentle lady, do not put me to’t,
For I am nothing if not critical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)