Ungentle: alternatives and connections

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as,…

Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicac…

a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the propriet…

Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an…

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; partic…

A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good fo…

Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.

The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a…

Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposit…

Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.