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Gentle vs Grabbing - What's the difference?

gentle | grabbing |

As verbs the difference between gentle and grabbing

is that gentle is to become gentle while grabbing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gentle and grabbing

is that gentle is a person of high birth while grabbing is the act of one who grabs.

As an adjective gentle

is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.

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.

    • grabbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * attention-grabbing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who grabs.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Metzger, Cubicle Cowboy (page 168)
    • On the way out, all five of us were subjected to an absolute gauntlet of ass-grabbings and crotch-grabbings. I suspected most of the culprits to be transvestites.