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Caring vs Gentle - What's the difference?

caring | gentle |

As adjectives the difference between caring and gentle

is that caring is (of a person) kind, sensitive, empathetic while gentle is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.

As verbs the difference between caring and gentle

is that caring is while gentle is to become gentle.

As nouns the difference between caring and gentle

is that caring is the act of one who cares while gentle is (archaic) a person of high birth.

caring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
  • She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who cares.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
  • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings .

    Anagrams

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    gentle

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • Docile and easily managed.
  • a gentle horse
  • Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
  • Polite and respectful rather than rude.
  • (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  • * Johnson's Cyc.
  • British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle , or simple.
  • * Milton
  • the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time

    Synonyms

    * (polite) friendly, kind, polite, respectful

    Antonyms

    * (polite) rude

    Derived terms

    * gentle craft * gentleness * gentleman * gentlewoman * gently

    Verb

    (gentl)
  • to become gentle (rfex)
  • to ennoble (rfex)
  • (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate (rfex)
  • To soothe; to calm. (rfex)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A person of high birth.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Gentles , methinks you frown.
  • (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers (rfex)
  • A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.