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Lovely vs Gentle - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between lovely and gentle

is that lovely is beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner while gentle is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.

As nouns the difference between lovely and gentle

is that lovely is an attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty while gentle is a person of high birth.

As a verb gentle is

to become gentle.

lovely

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lovely, luvelich, lufli, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
    • It's a lovely day and the sun is shining.
    The music box plays a lovely melody.
    The castle garden enchants visitors with its lovely blooms.
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely .
  • Very nice, wonderful.
    • It would be lovely to have a little more money to spend.
  • (obsolete) Inspiring love or friendship; amiable.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a most lovely gentlemanlike man
  • (obsolete) Loving, filled with love.
  • * Chaucer
    • Many a lovely look on them he cast.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a lovely kiss
    Synonyms
    * lovable * lovesome * loving
    Derived terms
    * lovelily * loveliness
    Related terms
    * loverly * lovingly

    Noun

    (lovelies)
  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty.
    • a calendar depicting young lovelies in bikinis
    • Goodbye, my lovely .
  • A lovely object. (rfex)
    • Synonyms
    * pretty, darling

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lovely, loflik, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Worthy to be praised.

    • Anagrams

    *

    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.