UNGENTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ungentle mean? 

• UNGENTLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNGENTLE has 1 sense:

1. not of the nobility

  Familiarity information: UNGENTLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNGENTLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not of the nobility

Synonyms:

ignoble; ungentle; untitled

Context example:

untitled civilians

Similar:

lowborn (of humble birth or origins)

 Context examples 

“Then who is ungentle and unkind now?” she cried in triumph.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls, said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I could not forget how my mother had thought that she felt her touch her pretty hair with no ungentle hand; and though it might have been altogether my mother's fancy, and might have had no foundation whatever in fact, I made a little picture, out of it, of my terrible aunt relenting towards the girlish beauty that I recollected so well and loved so much, which softened the whole narrative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Taken aback at this ungentle speech, and scarce knowing how to answer it fitly in the presence of the lady, Alleyne stood with his hand upon the handle of the door, while Sir Nigel and his companions dismounted.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)