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Gently vs Weakly - What's the difference?

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Gently is a related term of weakly.


As adverbs the difference between gently and weakly

is that gently is in a gentle manner while weakly is with little strength or force.

As an adjective weakly is

frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

gently

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • in a gentle manner

    • Antonyms

    * roughly

    weakly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • * 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
  • * 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • *:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With little strength or force