Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gentle
Participle: gentled
Gerund: gentling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gentle |
| you | gentle |
| he;she;it | gentles |
| we | gentle |
| you | gentle |
| they | gentle |
Perfect
| I | have gentled |
| you | have gentled |
| he;she;it | has gentled |
| we | have gentled |
| you | have gentled |
| they | have gentled |
Past
| I | gentled |
| you | gentled |
| he;she;it | gentled |
| we | gentled |
| you | gentled |
| they | gentled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gentled |
| you | had gentled |
| he;she;it | had gentled |
| we | had gentled |
| you | had gentled |
| they | had gentled |
Future
| I | will gentle |
| you | will gentle |
| he;she;it | will gentle |
| we | will gentle |
| you | will gentle |
| they | will gentle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gentled |
| you | will have gentled |
| he;she;it | will have gentled |
| we | will have gentled |
| you | will have gentled |
| they | will have gentled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gentle |
| you | gentle |
| he;she;it | gentle |
| we | gentle |
| you | gentle |
| they | gentle |
Perfect
| I | have gentled |
| you | have gentled |
| he;she;it | have gentled |
| we | have gentled |
| you | have gentled |
| they | have gentled |
Imperfect
| I | gentled |
| you | gentled |
| he;she;it | gentled |
| we | gentled |
| you | gentled |
| they | gentled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gentled |
| you | had gentled |
| he;she;it | had gentled |
| we | had gentled |
| you | had gentled |
| they | had gentled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gentle |
| you | would gentle |
| he;she;it | would gentle |
| we | would gentle |
| you | would gentle |
| they | would gentle |
Perfect
| I | would have gentled |
| you | would have gentled |
| he;she;it | would have gentled |
| we | would have gentled |
| you | would have gentled |
| they | would have gentled |
Imperative
| you | gentle |
| we | Let's gentle |
| you | gentle |
Verbs conjugated like 'gentle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gentle'
beetle,
cantle,
engle,
entre,
ettle,
fettle,
gangle,
geste,
gingle,
gruntle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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.
Sample Sentences
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A September morning brought a stiff northeast wind that blew at 30 miles an hour and kept small craft out of the sound. But by afternoon the wind gentled and the sound smoothed. [1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 510:]
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“She's experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she's relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he'd seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient. [2013, Kathryn L.M. Reynolds, Garland Roses, Kathryn L.M. Reynolds, →ISBN, page 226:]
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[…] For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition […] [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
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Yakima could have tried to catch him, gentle him as Wolf had been gentled, but having two stallions in his cavvy would lead to a different kind of trouble. [2008, Frank Leslie, The Killing Breed, Penguin, →ISBN:]
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A hornist, his playing gentled by perspective, is out of sight within the woods, but his notes are heard through or over the murmuring mix of bird song and breeze in leaves. [1996, William C. Loring, An American Romantic-realist Abroad: Templeton Strong and His Music, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 201:]