The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TAME which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2021.
Gentle crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAME | 33 % | 4 |
| SOFT | 20 % | 4 |
| MILD | 17 % | 4 |
| KIND | 4 % | 4 |
| GRADUAL | 4 % | 7 |
| BLAND | 4 % | 5 |
| MEEK | 4 % | 4 |
| TENDER | 4 % | 6 |
| TENDERHEARTED | 2 % | 13 |
| MAIDENLY | 2 % | 8 |
| KINDLY | 2 % | 6 |
| TAMED | 2 % | 5 |
| MEEKANDMILD | 2 % | 11 |
| NICE | 2 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gentle
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ennoble
- mild
- easy
- docile
- tamed
- tame
- soft
- pacify
- placate
- mollify
- appease
- lenify
Crossword Answer definitions
TAME verb- To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- To become tame or domesticated.
- To make gentle or meek.
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated
- (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
- Not exciting.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- (of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TAME
- Like a house pet
- Subdue
- Domesticated
- Unresisting
- Do some circus work
- Docile
- Break
- Unlikely to bite
- Make the wild mild
- G-rated
More clues leading to the result SOFT
- Kind of sell or soap
- Pillowy
- Soap or water preceder
- Out of shape
- Easily molded
- Yielding
- Lenient
- Not thug, as a rapper
- Cushy
- Not tough
More clues leading to the result MILD
- Not so hot
- Springtime weather
- Good-tempered
- Not so spicy
- Salsa jar adjective
- Salsa option
- Buffalo wings order
- Having southerly breezes
- Temperate
- Clement
More clues leading to the result KIND
More clues leading to the result GRADUAL
- Gentle
- Slow and steady
- Moderate
- Bit-by-bit
- Slow
- Changing slowly
- Not all at once
- Done by degrees
- Gentle.
- Slow.
More clues leading to the result BLAND
- Tasteless
- Vapid
- Family name in "Eating Raoul"
- Like plain tofu or vanilla
- Wishy-washy
- Totally vanilla
- Rather tasteless
- Flat-tasting
- Like baby food
- Unseasoned
More clues leading to the result MEEK
- Inheritors?
- Submissive
- Docile or gentle
- Docile
- Like a milquetoast
- Earth inheritors?
- Mild-mannered
- Earth's heirs?
- Earth's inheritors
- Far from bold
More clues leading to the result TENDER
- Softhearted
- Presley's "Love Me __"
- Submit
- Sore
- Like filet mignon
- Easily chewed
- It may be legal
- Easily sliced
- Loving
- Soft or gentle
More clues leading to the result TENDERHEARTED
More clues leading to the result MAIDENLY
More clues leading to the result KINDLY
More clues leading to the result TAMED
- Busted, as a bronco
- Domesticated
- Civilized
- Toned down
- Broke, in a way
- Broken
- Subdued
- Broken, as a bronc
- Brought to heel
- Calmed down