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gently meaning

EN[ˈdʒɛntli]
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WGently
  • Gently may refer to:
  • Dirk Gently, a fictional character created by Douglas Adams
  • George Gently, a fictional character created by Alan Hunter (see Inspector George Gently)
  • "Gently", a song by American nu metal band Slipknot from Iowa
  • Gently, a 1996 album by Liza Minnelli

    Definition of gently in English Dictionary

  • AdverbCOMgentlierCOMmore gentlySUPgentliestSUPmost gentlySUF-ly
    1. in a gentle manner.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Spiked samples were mixed gently but thoroughly, aliquoted into 20 ml glass scintillation vials and placed into the photosynthetron.
        • And now the sight of the two bottom fields, their gently undulating topography now changed beyond all recognition, exacerbated his down-heartedness.
        • The taste was of sweetened silt and arabica beans that hadn't been gently roasted so much as charred to death in their very own auto-da-fé.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adverbs
        • Morphemes
          • Suffixes
            • Words by suffix
              • Words suffixed with -ly

        Other Vocabulary

        Look-Alike Words
        1. en gentle
        2. en gentry
        3. en genty
        4. en Gentry
        5. en greatly
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of gently for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "gently" is an adverb. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
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