gentle care
Delicate, loving attention
Gentle care is attentive treatment that avoids harshness or roughness.
The phrase emphasizes tenderness and caution, often applied to handling fragile things, vulnerable people, or delicate situations: The antique requires gentle care, She nursed him back to health with gentle care.
Instructions may specify handle with gentle care to warn against damage.
- tenderSoft or sore
- softYielding to touch
- soft touchEasily persuaded person
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
delicate · kindness · warmth · warm embrace · caress · comfort · healing · healing hands · compassion · touch · kid gloves · loving · patience · bedside manner · attentive · cradling · nursing · protection
- caregivingnurture, look after, watch over, tend to, mothering
- hurt/comfortwhump, comfort, caretaking, nurturing, emotional healing
gentle caremanhandling
Treating with physical force
rough treatment · roughness · brute force · heavy-handedness · mishandling
gentle carecruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
abuse · mistreatment · brutality · maltreatment · harshness
gentle careneglect
Failure to provide care
negligence · disregard · carelessness · abandonment · inattention
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