Synonyms for gently
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1. gentlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   roughly

2. gentlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   roughly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. gentlyadverb

   in a gradual manner

   "a gently sloping terrain"

   Synonyms:
   mildly, softly, lightly

2. gently, mildlyadverb

   in a gentle manner

   "he talked gently to the injured animal"

   Synonyms:
   mildly, softly, lightly

3. lightly, softly, gentlyadverb

   with little weight or force

   "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

   Synonyms:
   quietly, thinly, piano, softly, light, mildly, lightly

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "gently":

   smoothly, softly, mildly, delicately, nicely, slowly, carefuily, easy, lightly, carefully, slightly, quietly, kindly

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1. RJ Intindola:

   When I hear a certain song playing in the background, I think of you and a vision of your face, pervades my soul. When the second song plays, your sweet fragrance fills the air around me. The third song and her gentle hand caressing my face tingles my body covered with goosebumps. At the fourth song, I gently glide to the radio and turn it off. There’s no sense roaming in the darkened marred past.

2. Behrouz Hariri:

   Often a very small movement or a very gentle push will stop the snoring. The problem is that it is very likely that after a few minutes they will start snoring again and nobody has the patience to continuously overnight just nudge or push their partner very gently to stop their snoring.

3. Tony Blair:

   I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

4. Tim Ghriskey:

   The market needs to be coddled and gently eased into a slightly higher interest-rate environment, and that appears to be what San Francisco Fed is doing, rates need to normalize and San Francisco Fed needs to give San Francisco Fed room to lower again in the event of another financial crisis.

5. Phil Crosby:

   You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.