Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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gentle

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.tl̩/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms gentler gentlest gentles gentling gentled

  1. adjective Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. “Stuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you.”
  2. adjective Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. “I felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy.”
  3. adjective Docile and easily managed. “We had a gentle swim in the lake.”
  4. adjective Gradual rather than steep or sudden. “The walks in this area have a gentle incline.”
  5. adjective Polite and respectful rather than rude. “He gave me a gentle reminder that we had to hurry up.”
  6. adjective (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  7. verb (intransitive) To become gentle.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.
  9. verb (transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.
  10. verb (transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
  11. noun (archaic) A person of high birth.
  12. noun (fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
  13. noun A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

silken friendly kind polite respectful pacify lenify conciliate assuage appease mollify placate gruntle ennoble entitle soft aristocratic aristocratical blue blue-blooded patrician docile easy

Antonyms

rude

Etymology

From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, genteel, and jaunty.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  2. adjective Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.
  3. noun One well born; a gentleman. [Obs.]
  4. noun A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

Etymology [OE. gentil, F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family, that is, of good or noble birth. See Gender, and cf. Genteel, Gentil, Gentile, Gentoo, Jaunty.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gentle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “gentle” (best matches first).

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