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Est. 1828
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'gentle'
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Words to Describe gentle

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Things gentle often describes ("gentle ________")

  • air
  • heat
  • pressure
  • light
  • tap
  • push
  • heart
  • winds
  • touch
  • ascent
  • manipulation
  • movements
  • tones
  • curve
  • fire
  • disposition
  • swell
  • breeze
  • manner
  • shaking
  • humor
  • persuasion
  • warmth
  • hand
  • treatment
  • words
  • look
  • knock
  • eyes
  • curves
  • handling
  • face
  • smile
  • creatures
  • suction
  • means
  • hands
  • exercise
  • person
  • mother
  • girl
  • wife
  • waves
  • fingers
  • hint
  • kind
  • irony
  • love
  • birth
  • massage
  • slopes
  • melancholy
  • rise
  • blood
  • murmur
  • knight
  • breezes
  • voice
  • squeeze
  • wind
  • nature
  • expression
  • manners
  • spirit
  • sound
  • kiss
  • creature
  • boy
  • lady
  • art
  • rain
  • stream
  • woman
  • man
  • motion
  • agitation
  • hills
  • sleep
  • soul
  • tone
  • traction
  • undulations
  • slope
  • heating
  • current
  • movement
  • sigh
  • reminder
  • reader

How gentle often is described ("________ gentle")

  • private
  • sweet
  • more
  • passionless
  • not
  • former
  • temperament
  • modest
  • true
  • yet
  • weak
  • poor
  • very
  • soft

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  • reticent
  • winsome
  • plangent
  • nonjudgmental
  • pleasant
  • meditative
  • playful
  • little
  • companionable
  • chatty
  • mannerly
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