Gentle

Definitions: Gentle

Gentle

Adjective

1. Soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe; "a gentle reprimand"; "a vein of gentle irony"; "poked gentle fun at him".

2. Having or showing a kindly or tender nature; "the gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes".

3. Quiet and soothing; "a gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne".

4. Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes".

5. Easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient".

6. Having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window".

7. Marked by moderate steepness; "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope".

Verb

1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify her angry boss".

2. Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility.

3. Stroke soothingly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gentle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gentle

Courtesy

Ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly.

Deception

Phrase: "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"; fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"; "a quicksand of deceit"; decipimur specie recti; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue".

Excitability

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.

Information

Hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture; (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; insinuation; (latency).

Lenity

Adjective: lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent, easy-going; clement; (compassionate); forbearing; long-suffering.

Moderation

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Nobility

Adjective: noble, exalted; of rank; Noun: princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly; (fashionable); highly respectable.

Obliquity

Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Crosswords: Gentle

Can't she take a gentle hint? (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

But I'm gonna hurt you. And not gentle like before but bad. (Unforgiven; writing credit: Walon Green; Roy N. Sickner)

I remember another gentle visitor from the heavens. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman. (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head)

Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova ("Downtown"; performing artist: Petula Clark)

That swings so cool and sways so gentle ("The Girl From Ipanema"; performing artist: Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto)

I hear the sound of a gentle word ("Good Vibrations"; performing artist: The Beach Boys)

A gentle judge judges justly. (references; author: unknown)

Gentle Savage (1973)

The Gentle People and the Quiet Land (1972)

Gentle Strangers (1972)

The Art of Gentle Persuasion (1970)

Gentle Giant (1968)

GENTLE ON MY MIND (performing artist: Glen Campbell )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse (reference)

• Getting in Touch With Your Dog: A Gentle Approach to Influencing Behavior, Health, and Performance (reference)

• Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Kripalu Yoga: Gentle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mozart for Massage: Music with a Soft, Gentle Touch (reference)

• Gentle Side of John Coltrane (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Waterpik NA-2 Gentle Sinus Rinse Attachment (reference)

• Melnor 5305C Gentle Rain Nozzle Spray Wand (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Gentle surf on the Folly Island Beach.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Gentle draft horses were used to transport wood to the sensitive regions of the upper river where heavy machinery would have been inappropriate. The horses were less expensive and worked in conjunction with the spyder to minimize disturbance to the stream bed and riparian buffer areas.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The draft horses used to haul woody debris at the restoration site were gentle and beautiful as well as less costly than heavy machinery.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Humpback whales are gentle and feed primarily on krill, small shrimp. Megaptera novaeangliae.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Gentle Emetic / [J. Gillray].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fanciful portrait of person referred to so often in print as "Gentle Reader".Credit: Library of Congress.

The shoemaker spelled out the words with gentle, half-moving lips.Credit: Library of Congress.

Those service uniforms on hot days. A gentle hint to Police Commissioner Swann.Credit: Library of Congress.

"When the Spring-time comes, gentle"--Indian! Polygamous barbarian: "Much guns, much ammunition much whiskey, and much kill pale-face."/ / Th. Nast. Exiles from Russia--their first day in New York / from a sketch by S.F. Yeager.Credit: Library of Congress.

Twas Ursula whose gentle tread ... / [Ethel Reed].Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And therefore God almighty when he would express his gentle dealing with the Israelites, he tells them, that though he chastened them, he chastened them as a man chastens his son, Deut. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He seems to me to be grown particularly gentle of late.

At last the Professor ventured on a gentle suggestion.

The voice was soft and gentle.

In his visits he was indulgent and gentle, and preached less than he talked.

So long and cruel they were though the white fattish hands were not cruel but gentle.

Then, God grant me to Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed! O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!

A wind, gentle and sighing, blew in puffs from the southwest, and the mountains on both sides of the great valley were indistinct in a pearly mist.

The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Gentle heat applied over the inflamed area is comforting. (references)

The single most important and basic approach is gentle, honest communication. (references)

Many patients feel that gentle stretching exercises help relieve IC symptoms. (references)

Business

On the contrary, the perception that a gentle approach is far better is catching on. Sports of different kinds are pursued in moderation, depending on individual ability. (references)

Travel

Philippines

Be as gentle as possible and always make it a point to end the meeting with some show of personal concern for his family to make him feel he is still part of the team and that the criticism is not personal. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Gentle

Expressions using "gentle": a gentle slope ♦ gentle as a lamb ♦ Gentle Bioenergetics ♦ gentle breeze ♦ gentle hint ♦ gentle reader ♦ gentle rebuke ♦ gentle reminder ♦ gentle sex ♦ gentle wind ♦ in a gentle slope ♦ of gentle birth ♦ The gentle craft ♦ the gentle sex. Additional references.

Beginning with "gentle": gentle-eyed, gentle-faced, gentle-folk, Gentle-hearted, Gentle-heartedness, gentle-landing, gentle-looking, gentle-natured, gentle-persons.

Ending with "gentle": none-too-gentle.

Afrikaan

soet (soft, sweet, tender), lieflik (charming, lovely, soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Albanian

qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), nga derë e mirë, miqësor (amicable, folksy, friendly, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, United), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i sjellë, i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, caring, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, genial, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender), fisnik (aristocrat, blue-blooded, gallant, generous, gent, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gently born, grand, great, high minded, knight, knightly, lofty, moral, nobiliary, noble, nobleman, patrician), bujar (big, bounteous, bountiful, disinterested, free-handed, generous, gentlemanlike, good, good hearted, handsome, lavish, liberal, nobleman, open handed, princely, unselfish), aristokraci (aristocracy, gentility, gentlefolks), ëmbël (smooth, soft, sweet, sweetly, tender). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, generous, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), ‏معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏وديع (facile, humble, meek, placid, quiet, tame), ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏سهل الإ نقياد (tractable), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏روض (break, break in, domesticate, manage, master, school, tame, thaw, train), ‏ربت (clap, dab, fondle, knock, pat, rap, slap), ‏دمث (affable, courteous, mannerly, mild, pleasant, suave). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умерен (abstemious, abstinent, conservative, equable, frugal, medium, mezzo, mild, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, slack, sober, sparing, temperate, tempered), обяздвам (break in, bust, train), опитомявам (break in, domesticate, reclaim, tame), знатен (illustrious, noble, pedigreed), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), благородник (aristocrat, esquire, grand seigneur, high minded, noble, nobleman, peer), благороден (exalted, generous, grand, high minded, honorable, honourable, humane, magnanimous, noble-minded, sublime, white), благ (avuncular, benign, benignant, charitable, dovelike, good tempered, gracious, kindly, mild, suave, sweet), придвижвам леко, послушен (amenable, biddable, good, governable, obedient, submissive, tame, toward, tractable, unresisting), дружески (amicable, chummy, friendly, sociable, social). (various references)

Catalan

dolç (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Chinese 

輕鬆 (relaxed), 輕 (easy, hydrogen, light, soft), �"�'�, 慈 (compassionate, humane, kind, merciful), 徐 (slow, Xu), 夭 (tender, to die prematurely). (various references)

Czech

urozený (high born, highborn, nobiliary, noble, pedigree), trpìlivý (long-suffering, patient, uncomplaining), povlovný (easy, gradual), mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), mìkký (balmy, fresh, mellow, mild, silky, soft, squashy, tender), laskavý (affable, amiable, benevolent, benign, benignant, caring, charitable, decent, friendly, good, gracious, kind, kindly, neighborly, obliging, open-hearted, soft), lahodný (appetizing, dainty, delicious, delightful, luscious, nutty, Savory, suave, sweet, yummy), krotký (docile, domesticated, quiet, tame), jemný (bland, dainty, delicate, fine, graceful, gracious, light, milky, nice, silken, silky, soft, suave, subtle, superfine, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

Danish

sød (beloved, dear, expensive, lovely, soft, sweet, tender, valuable), mild (mild). (various references)

Dutch

zoet (affable, candy, friendly, good-natured, kind, soft, sweet, tender), zacht (flaccid, mild, soft, sweet, tender, unctuous). (various references)

Esperanto

milda (mild), dolĉa (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Faeroese

søtur (soft, sweet, tender), mildur (mild, serene, soft, sweet, tender, untroubled), lagaligur (mild, practical), blíður (affable, friendly, good-natured, kind, mild, obliging). (various references)

Farsi 

مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Meek, Mellow, Merciful, Mild, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), ملایم کردن (Modulate, Soften, Sweeten, Temper), ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), نجیب (Bland, Decent, Genteel, Meek, Nice, Noble), لطیف (Benign, Delicate, Fine, Gaseous, Gossamer, Rare, Rosewater, Soft, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous, Volatile), اهسته (Gradual, Indistinct, Languid, Light, Low, Slow), ارام کردن (Acquiesce, Allay, Alleviate, Appease, Assuage, Conciliate, Cool, Lull, Pacify, Placate, Quiet, Silence, Smooth, Solace, Still), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist), رام کردن (Bridle, Daunt, Master, Subdue), باتربیت (Mannerly). (various references)

Finnish

lempeä (mild, sweet). (various references)

French

doux (genial), gentil (genial, gentile). (various references)

Frisian

swiet (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant, soft, sweet, tender), myld (mild), mjitsk (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

German

zahm (domesticated, obedient, tame, tamely), sanftmütig (docile, meek, meekly), sanft (bland, blandly, calm, caressing, delicate, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mild, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, soft, softly, suave, undulating), mild (balmy, benevolent, benign, bland, clement, clemently, lenient, light, meek, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly), leise (faint, light, lightly, low, quiet, quietly, silently, slight, sneaking, soft, softly, sotto voce, subtle). (various references)

Greek 

πράοσ (benign, biddable, bland, meek, mild, placid, quiet), ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, ladylike, nobble, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, thoroughbred, urbane, well mannered), ελαφρόσ (buoyant, feathery, flippant, frivolous, light, lightsome, resilient, skin deep, slight, yeasty), ήπιοσ (bland, Clement, mild), απαλόσ (delicate, soft). (various references)

Hawaiian

ëmbël (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתון (aggradation, cautious, considerate, easygoing, gradualness, mellow, mild, moderate, moderation, restrained, slow down, slowness, staid, temperate), יפ�" � פש (bleeding heart, high minded, noble, refined), ע�"ין (as yet, dainty, delicate, elegant, fine, gracious, mild, noble, not yet, slender, soft, still, subtle, tender, yet), בעל � פש (delicate, refined), רך (dainty, flaccid, limping, mellow, soft, tender), רתוי (indulgent, leniency, lenient, mild, mildness, resignation, withdrawal), � יחא (convenient, granted, so be it, soft, well). (various references)

Hungarian

megnyugtat (assuage, becalm, calm down, disembarrass, quell, quiet, quiet down, reassure, still, to appease, to assuage, to calm sy down, to gentle, to hush, to lull, to quell, to quiet down, to reassure, to salve, to sedate, to sleek, to solace, to soothe, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize, tranquilize, tranquillize), kedves (affable, amiable, beloved, bland, comely, darling, dear, ducky, expensive, friendly, good-natured, kind, lady love, likable, lovable, loveable, lovely, lover, loving, marrow, mild, nice, paramour, suave, sweet, Valentine, valuable), elõkelõ (eminent, illustrious, noble, refined, well born, west end), úriember (gent, gentleman, gentlemen), édes (ducky, dulcet, luscious, soft, suave, sweet, tender, to taste sweet). (various references)

Icelandic

mjúkur (mild). (various references)

Indonesian

ramah (debonair, genial, kind, neighborly), lemah-lembut (docile, mansuetude, sweet-tempered). (various references)

Irish

milis (soft, sweet). (various references)

Italian

dolce (bland, cake, dessert, fresh, Goody, honeyed, luscious, mild, pudding, smooth, soft, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle, tuck), mite (bland, genial, lenient, meek, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate), gentile (affable, bland, charming, civil, courteous, decent, fair, genteel, gentile, gracious, kind, kindly, likable, mild, nice, obliging, polite, tender, thoughtful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"らか (limp, meek, soft, subdued, tender), 優 (actor, affectionate, gentleness, superiority), 優し�' (kind, sweet-looking), 優しい (affectionate, amiable, graceful, kind, suave, tender), �"� � (docile, meek, obedient, submissive), ない交ぜにする (easy, gently-sloping, long thin brown "naoko" mushroom, nostalgic melody, to blend, to follow, to trace, very small amount which looks like nothing), 温�'� (mild, moderate), �'�やか (calm, harmonious, mild, quiet), 温良 (amiable), 軟らか (limp, meek, soft, subdued, tender), �"� � (docile, meek, obedient, submissive), 穏�'� (mild, moderate), 穏やか (calm, quiet), 穏便 (peaceable, quiet), 物�"らか (mild, mild-mannered), � �良 (good and obedient, meek), 温厚 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

お�"び�" (euphonic change, euphony, peaceable, quiet), お�"�"う, お�"りょう (amiable, apparition, revengeful ghost, volume), お�"わ (mild, moderate), お� やか (calm, quiet), な�"やか (calm, harmonious, mild, quiet), な� らか (easy, gently-sloping), やさしい (affectionate, amiable, easy, graceful, kind, plain, simple, suave, tender), やさし�' (kind, sweet-looking), やさ (affectionate), やわらか (limp, meek, soft, subdued, tender), ものやわらか (mild, mild-mannered), じゅうじゅ�" (docile, meek, obedient, submissive), じゅ�"りょう (genuine, good and obedient, innocent, meek, net weight, pure, purity, simple and kind). (various references)

Korean 

온후한 (Clement). (various references)

Lombard

dols (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Malay

manis (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Manx

mial (good-natured, humane, lenient), meein (bland, clement, fine, Halcyon days, pet, silky, smooth, soft, tame not wild; assuage pain; small ground, tame; assuage; small ground), crooag (flesh worm, grub, maggot). (various references)

Norwegian

søt (beloved, dear, expensive, lovely, soft, sweet, tender, valuable). (various references)

Papiamen

dushi (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Pig Latin

entlegay

Polish

słodki. (various references)

Portuguese

suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), meigo (bland, dainty, delicate, fine, mild, refined, soft, sweet, tender), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fasting, fine, Flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gingery, kid glove, Kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out and out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made), brando (bland, dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flag, lenient, light, lithe, meek, mellow, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, tender). (various references)

Romanian

gingaş (dainty, delicate, delicately, fastidious, fine, fragile, frail, mellow, nice, pernickety, sightly, squeamish, sweet, tender), gentil (amiable, courteous, polite, politely), galant (chivalrous, courteous, gallant, gallantly, generous, polite, swaggering), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), înţelegãtor (accommodating, gently, rational, sympathetic), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slack, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak), învãţa la mers, aristocratic (aristocratic), binecrescut (accomplished, genteel, gentleman, gentlemanlike, well bred, well educated), binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, bland, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genteel, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, lithe, nice, propitious, ungrudging, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), blajin (benign, easy-tempered, good natured, good tempered, meek, mild, mildly, placable, sweet), bomboanå (soft, sweet, tender), cavaleresc (brave, chivalrous, gallant, knightly, valiant), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), îmblânzi (curb, daunt, domesticate, humanize, manage, mellow, milden, pacify, propitiate, reclaim, subdue, tame, train), drãgãlaş (comely, dainty, lovely, sweet), vierme (creeper, grub, insect, maggot, worm), elegant (daintily, dainty, Dandy, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, gallant, genteel, graceful, gracefully, jaunty, polite, smart, smartly, smug, spicy, stylish, swell, tasty, well-dressed), lin (flowing, mild, quiet, slowly, smooth, smoothly, soft, sweet, tench), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), mângâios (delightful), manierat (attentive, ceremonious, courteous, courteously, courtly, genteel, gentlemanlike, mannered, mannerly, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), moderat (abstemious, mild, moderate, moderately, rational, reasonable, steady, temperate), nobil (aerial, distinguished, esquire, grand, high minded, high-bred, kingly, lofty, noble, nobleman, noble-minded, nobly, patrician, peer, seignior), tandru (affectionate, amorous, dearly, fond, fondly, gently, loving, soft, soft-hearted, tender, tenderly), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), distins (distinguished, eminent, fashionable, gentlemanlike, grand, high-bred, refined). (various references)

Russian 

мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references)

Scottish

uasal (genteel; nm. g.v. -ail; pl. uaislean, noble, proud), tl� th (indulgent, mild, smooth to the touch), suairc (affable, civil, kind, urbane), socair (at your ease, comfort : air do shocair, ease, mild, quiet, rest, steady, take), milis (a. sweet, soft, sweet, tender), macanta (meek, mild), m� lda (calm, modest), fòil (mild, slow, stately; calm, tranquil), caomh (benign, meek, tender), acarach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umeren (abstemious, abstinent, moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate), plemenit (aristocratic, high minded, kind, nobby, noble), nežan (affectionate, dainty, delicate, endearing, fond, frail, kind, loving, melting, tender), mek (sleeky, soft, tender), mamac (allure, bait, decoy, lure, spoon bait, stalking horse, troll), blag (benign, bland, clement, genial, lenient, light, meek, mellow, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous). (various references)

Spanish

dulce (candy, delicacy, dove-like, dulcet, fresh, melting, mild, soft, soothing, sweet, sweetmeat, tender, tidbit, trifle), suave (balmy, dulcet, genial, mild, pleasant, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subdued, supple, sweet). (various references)

Sranan

switi (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant, soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Swahili

-tamu (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Swedish

mild (bland, charitable, Clement, delicate, easy, genial, kind, lamblike, lenient, mild, soft), vek (soft, weak), sakta (carefully, gently, hush, low, slacken, slow, slowly), fredlig (nonviolent, orderly, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful), blid (advantageous, bland, favourable, mild, placid, sentle, soft). (various references)

Tagalog

matamís (soft, sweet, tender). (various references)

Turkish

yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), tatli (soft, sweet, tender), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered), hox (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, soft, sweet, tender), hoşgörülü (broad, Clement, complaisant, decent, forgiving, indulgent, lenient, patient, permissive, tolerant, wide open), anlayışlı (comprehensive, considerate, discerning, heartthrob, indulgent, quick-eyed, receptive, sagacious, understanding, wise), aheste (mild, slow). (various references)

Turkmen 

tultuk (mild, soft), nдzik (delicate, tender). (various references)

Ukranian 

родовитий (gently born, well born), облагороджувати (elevate, ennoble, humanize, subtilize), м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, genial, kindly, limp, melodious, mild, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding), лагідний (accommodating, appeasable, benign, dovelike, lamblike, livable, meek, pacable, placable), приручений (tame), приручати (charm, domesticate, tame), пом'якшувати (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, dulcify, expurgate, milden, mitigate, modify, mollify, palatalize, rebate, remit, smooth, smooth over, soft pedal, soften, soothe, tone down). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lịch sự; cao quý, hiền l� nh (meek), dịu d� ng (dulcet, light, smoothspoken, velvet). (various references)

Welsh

gwaraidd (civilized), gwa+r (tame), tyner (bland, tender), tirion (benign, bland, gracious, kind, tender), mwyn (benign, bland, dear, kind, mild, mineral, ore, sake), melys (soft, sweet, tender), llariaidd (meek, mild), cyweithas (company, kind, sociable, society), bonheddig (aristocratic, gentlemanly, noble), addfwynol, addfwyn (meek, mild). (various references)

zil. (various references)

blanda, blande, blandis, clemens, clemente, clementes, clementia, clementibus, clementis, gentilis, Hapalémur, lenes, lenia, lenis, levana, leve, levem, levi, levia, leviora, leviores, levis, levius, leviusque, mansueti, mansuetis, mansuetorum, mansuetos, mansuetum, mansuetus, mites, mitibus, mitis, mitissimus, mitius, mollem, molles, mollibus, mollis, morata, morati, moratus, placidus, suavis, summissus (from summitto). (various references)

gentil. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.