Antonyms for gentle

having a mild or kind nature:

mean, severe, disagreeable, unfeeling, wild, loud, excited, odorous, cruel, harsh, unfriendly, violent, uncompassionate, callous, rough, strong, unkind, putrid, troubled, low, crude, hard, healthy, merciless, unhappy, agitated, sharp, irritable, surly, hateful.

mild, temperate in effect on senses:

fierce, coarse, smart, Roused, uncontrolled, significant, heavy, boisterous, intelligent, noisy, turbulent.

of noble birth:

unrefined, impolite, uncivil, unsophisticated, rude, unmannerly.

noun:

dirty, crabbed, hateful, breezy, unlovely, plain, gloomy, sunless, sour, gusty, untamed, illegitimate, overcast, squealing, bleak, abrasive, lowborn, mean, squally, knavish, rip-roaring, inclement, degraded, noisy, ill-natured, shrill, foggy, ordinary, ill-tempered, raucous, stormy, strident, irritating, crusty, misty, rainy, blustering, foul, ill-humored, rugged, Unamiable, forcible, morose, exquisite, roughened, subordinate, intemperate, dismal, churlish, pitiless, Dinning, hazy, sullen, blustery, Overloud, obstreperous, dogged, cloudy, acrimonious, windy, vociferous, showery, forceful, powerful, crashing, gray, rude, nasty, clarion, junior, lower class, clear.

Paraphrases for Gentle:

• Adjective :
  35, 35th, adorable, affectionate, agreeable, alert, alternative, amiable, awesome, awkward, balmy, beautiful, benevolent, benign, bland, boy, brave, calm, careful, caring, cautious, challenging, charming, circumspect, clean, complementary, complicated, considerate, contentious, cool, correct, covert, cuddly, cute, decent, delicate, difficult, discreet, discrete, drastic, easy, emotive, faint, fair, feeble, fine, fleecy, flexible, flimsy, fragile, fresh, freshwater, frivolous, generous, good-looking, good-natured, gracious, great, handsome, happy, harmless, helpful, holy, hot, idealistic, inconspicuous, invisible, Kind-hearted, lame, lean, lenient, light, light-duty, light-touch, light-weight, lightweight, little, lovable, loveable, lovely, loving, low, low-key, low-profile, lucky, marginal, marine, masculine, measured, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, minor, moderate, moderated, modest, moist, nice-looking, noble, okay, peaceful, pleasant, polite, precious, problematic, proper, prudent, quiet, refined, restrained, seamless, secretive, sensitive, shallow, sleek, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, sly, small, smooth, sober, soft, soft-spoken, sound, sparse, steady, stealth, sticky, subtle, sweet, swift, sympathetic, tentative, thin, thirty-five, thorny, thoughtful, timid, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, unobtrusive, vigilant, waiter, warm, wary, weak, wonderful, wrong.
• Interjection :
  brake, careful, hush, quiet, relax, SHH, slow, soft, softly, sweet, Whoa.
• Proper noun, singular :
  complementary, easy, fresh, freshwater, holy, mild, smooth, soft, sweet.