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

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1. List of paraphrases for "gently":

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

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How to use gently in a sentence?

1. Unknown:

   A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow.

2. Jane Austen:

   The movie talks about how Fire Island has been this place where gay men have historically gone to feel safe, and Fire Island asks what you do when you feel unsafe there, among your' own kind,' i like that the movie deals with these subjects very gently. It's not really angry. It's not really accusatory. But it's just sort of showing how it is and how we manage to love Fire Island anyway.

3. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

   Your love is like the trees gently blowing through my mind. You heart is streamed with leaves delicate as the seasons. Your soul is as the memory of all that heaven divulges.

4. David Pilgrim:

   Young visitors to the museum ask me, “What was it like to live during the civil rights struggle?” I gently tell them that we are living during the civil rights struggle. -David Pilgrim

5. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2:

   I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.