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Word entry · 6 letters

gently

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"Softly"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/Part of speech adverbSorted eglntyStarts with GEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (GENTLY).

Definitions

  1. with little weight or force

Word origin

From Middle English gentilly, gentlych, gentilliche, equivalent to gentle + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.

Used in a sentence

  • From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
  • I look at the world, and I notice it's turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake, we must surely be learning / Still my guitar gently weeps
  • gently born

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