Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster [584]
Antonyms
abrasive, caustic, coarse, hard, harsh, rough
[7] balmy, clement, equable, mild, moderate, temperate—more at CLEMENT
2gentle verb gen·tled; gen·tling 1 : to make or become mild, docile, soft, or moderate
2 : MOLLIFY, PLACATE
gen·tle·folk also gen·tle·folks noun : persons of good family and breeding
gen·tle·man noun 1 : a man of good family
2 : a well-bred man
3 : an adult male human being : MAN — used in pl. as a form of address
— gen·tle·man·ly adjective
Synonyms
[1] aristocrat, grandee, noble, patrician; also squire; cavalier, knight; don, seigneur, sheikh; baron, baronet, count, duke, earl, esquire, lord, marquess, marquis, prince, thane, viscount; magnate, mogul, nabob, czar; socialite, swell
[3] buck, chap, dude, fellow, gent, guy, hombre, jack, joker, lad, male, man—more at MAN
gen·tle·wom·an noun 1 : a woman of good family
2 : a woman attending a lady of rank
3 : a woman with very good manners : LADY
Synonyms
dame, lady, noblewoman; also ladyship, madam; baroness, countess, duchess, marchioness; czarina, empress, queen; dowager, matriarch, matron, mistress
gen·tri·fi·ca·tion noun : the process of renewal accompanying the influx of middle-class people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usu. poorer residents
— gen·tri·fy verb
gen·try noun, plural gentries 1 : people of good birth, breeding, and education : ARISTOCRACY
2 : the class of English people between the nobility and the yeomanry
3 : persons of a designated class
gen·u·flect verb : to bend the knee esp. in worship
— gen·u·flec·tion noun
gen·u·ine adjective 1 : actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character : AUTHENTIC, REAL
2 : free from hypocrisy or pretense : SINCERE, HONEST
— gen·u·ine·ness noun
Synonyms
[1] authentic, bona fide, real, right, true—more at AUTHENTIC
[2] artless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretentious
gen·u·ine·ly adverb : in a genuine manner : ACTUALLY
Synonyms
actually, authentically, really, veritably, very—more at VERY
ge·nus noun, plural gen·era [ORIGIN: L, birth, race, kind]
: a category of biological classification that ranks between the family and the species and contains related species
geo·cen·tric adjective 1 : relating to or measured from the earth's center
2 : having or relating to the earth as a center
geo·chem·is·try noun : a branch of geology that deals with the chemical composition of and chemical changes in the earth
— geo·chem·i·cal adjective
— geo·chem·ist noun
ge·ode noun : a nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral matter
1geodesic adjective : made of light straight structural elements 2geodesic noun : the shortest line between two points on a surface