Gentle and Ready

Gentle

Gentle adjective - Not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect.

Ready and gentle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead an adjective "Gentle".

Ready

Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

Gentle and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gentle" instead an adjective "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Theatre / My Fair Lady Pickering is a gentle teacher, ready to call off a session when he can see Eliza is tired.
  • Her Japanese side is extremely polite and gentle (and in love with Itoshiki-sensei), while her foreign half is loud, obnoxious, and ready to sue her classmates at the drop of a hat.
  • The grimmest part of the whole scenario is that Mord-Sith start out as kind, gentle girls and are systematically tortured and broken until they are ready, willing, and able to do it to others.
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