🐎 Not tamed 🏰 Not noble

ungentled

9.8

Not used to people and hard to touch or train

adjective
/ʌnˈdʒɛntəld/

Archaic

: sin suavidad

His ungentled demeanor made everyone around him feel uncomfortable and anxious.

Examples

Despite his ungentled manner, he had a loyal group of friends who appreciated his honesty.
But we have little time to mourn the dead while the likes of Taim are alive and ungentled.

Fiction book (1992)
"The law." "I know the law as well as you, but I will not risk having him freed again ungentled."

Fiction book (1992)
The ungentled response from the audience showed their disapproval of the speaker's harsh words.

Synonyms

ungentle

vsungentled

1 7.7

Harsh and unkind in the way someone acts

is about not being made gentle in character rather than active harshness

untender

vsungentled

7.9

Not gentle or kind in manner and not soft in feel

focuses on being unsoftened in manner or character rather than lacking tenderness

unbuffered

vsungentled

7.2

Very direct and blunt, not made softer for feelings

emphasizes being unsoftened in character rather than merely blunt effect

untempered

vsungentled

8.4

Very strong and not held back

focuses on absence of gentling or softening rather than lack of restraint

Antonyms

gentle

235 1.0

Kind and not strong in action, sound, or touch

How Gentle

gentle

235 1.0

softened

3.3

ungentled

Archaic

9.8

rough

114 3.9

brutal

NSFW

229 4.8

Surface Forms

ungentled positive

Morphology

ungentled = gentled (transparent) = un + gentle + ed

Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'gentled' (gentle + -ed); meaning 'not made gentle' is directly predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Ungentled is un- 'not' plus gentled, where gentle means 'calm' or 'tame'. Think of an ungentled horse that has not been made calm, so it is wild and hard to handle, and that is why ungentled means not made gentle in manner or character.