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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1. 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.

2. Angel Blessing:

   Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

3. 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.

4. Pamela Plotkin:

   So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes.

5. Di Maio:

   The key to the process is to design the pressure release rate not to stress the dough, which likes to expand gently, we mainly studied how dough behaves with and without yeast -- how the softness changes with leavening( rising), and how the dough responds to a temperature program during baking.