Gentle. Mild, bland, moderate, kind, tender, compassionate, indulgent, meek, soft, lenient, humane, clement, merciful, tender-hearted, gentle-hearted; tame, docile, peaceable, calm, peaceful, tranquil, tractable, pacific, quiet; light, zephyrlike; noble, high-born, well-born; cultivated, refined, courteous, well-bred, polished; placid, amiable.
Ant. Rough, rude, coarse, fierce, savage; uneven, uncut; boisterous; shaggy, ragged, disordered; harsh, uncivil, offensive; tempestuous, stormy; inclement.
Genuine. Pure, uncorrupt, unalloyed, unadulterated, true, authentic, real, veritable; native, unaffected, sincere; sound, natural.
Ant. Spurious, adulterated; fictitious; apocryphal, counterfeit, false, artificial.
Germ. Embryo, ovule, seed-bud; origin, source, first principle; nucleus, seed, bud.
Ant. Fruit, result, development, product, produce, issue, outgrowth.
Germane. Related, akin, cognate, allied; pertinent, relevant, appropriate, apposite, fitting, suitable; kindred, homogeneous.
Ant. Foreign, alien, irrelevant, unconnected.
Germinate. Bud, shoot, vegetate, sprout, push, burst forth, put forth, spring up.
Ant. Rot, decay, spoil, die, putrefy, corrupt.