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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gentlyadverb

    in a gradual manner

    "a gently sloping terrain"

  2. gently, mildlyadverb

    in a gentle manner

    "he talked gently to the injured animal"

  3. lightly, softly, gentlyadverb

    with little weight or force

    "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

Wiktionary

  1. gentlyadverb

    in a gentle manner

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Gentlyadverb

    Etymology: from gentle.

    My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.

    The mischiefs that come by inadvertency, or ignorance, are but very gently to be taken notice of. John Locke.

    Fortune’s blows,
    When most struck home, being gently warded, craves
    A noble cunning. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    In the same island a sort of great bat, as men lie asleep with their legs naked, will suck their blood at a wound so gently made as not to awake them. Nehemiah Grew, Musæum.

ChatGPT

  1. gently

    In a manner that is soft, mild, tender, or moderate in intensity. It often refers to an action done with care or without harshness, violence, or forcefulness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gentlyadverb

    in a gentle manner

Wikidata

  1. Gently

    Gently is the title of the ninth studio album by artist Liza Minnelli. It was released im May 1996. The album was nominated for one Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 1997.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'gently' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2485

  2. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'gently' in Adverbs Frequency: #205

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gently in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gently in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of gently in a Sentence

  1. 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.

  2. Homer:

    The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

  3. Goa Kerle:

    We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

  4. Kristen Donathan:

    Go to Walmart and get you a foaming hand soap bottle, you’re going to fill it a fourth of the way full of Dawn dish soap, add water, top it off with alcohol. Gently mix it.

  5. Francis de Sales:

    If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

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