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Webster 1913 Edition

Gently

Gen′tly

,

adv.

In a gentle manner.

My mistress

gently

chides the fault I made.

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gently

GEN'TLY

,

adv.

Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness.

My mistress gently chides the fault I made.

1.

Without violence, roughness or asperity.

Definition 2024

gently

gently

English

Adverb

gently ‎(comparative gentlier or more gently, superlative gentliest or most gently)

in a gentle manner

Antonyms

roughly

Translations

in a gentle manner

Armenian: կամաց (hy) ‎(kamacʿ)
Bulgarian: нежно (bg) ‎(nežno), внимателно (bg) ‎(vnimatelno)
Catalan: suaument
Dutch: zachtjes (nl), voorzichtig (nl), zachtaardig (nl)
Finnish: ****ävaraisesti, lempeästi (fi), vienosti (fi), ****ävaroen
Hungarian: finoman (hu)
Italian: soavemente, dolcemente (it), blandamente (it), delicatamente (it), gentilmente (it), sordamente
Japanese: そっと ‎(sotto)
Korean: 부드럽게 ‎(budeureopge)
Latin: leniter, lene (la)
Malay: perlahan

Persian: یواش (fa) ‎(yavâš)
Polish: łagodnie (pl), delikatnie (pl)
Portuguese: gentilmente
Russian: не́жно (ru) ‎(néžno)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: нежно, њежно

Roman: nežno, nježno (sh)
Spanish: mansamente (es), suave (es)
Tatar: әкрен (tt) ‎(äkren)
Telugu: మెత్తగా (te) ‎(mettagā)
Thai: เบา (th) ‎(bao)