Spanish term
United States
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Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to French, and 6 more.
más gentiles
Colleagues from Spain, feel free to send me your suggestions as well. This is a translation about Mythology. Is okay to translate it as his features more human, more kind or more courteous?
It's about the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.
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Teseo estaba pensando en otra cosa, en la cabeza de bestia que llevaba bajo el trapo y que quedaba al descubierto con el viento, observaba que sus rasgos parecían cada día más humanos, más gentiles...
| 4 +4 | more gentle |
neilmac
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| 4 +3 | more docile |
Andrew Bramhall
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| 5 +1 | Gentler |
Luis Alberto Robledo Lizardi
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| 4 +1 | more pleasant |
Cecilia Gowar
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| 4 -2 | more graceful |
Simone Taylor
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May 16, 2022 14:47: María Perales changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, abe(L)solano, María Perales
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Proposed translations
more gentle
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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2022-05-17 09:27:37 GMT)
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NB: BOTH 'GENTLER' AND 'MORE GENTLE' ARE CORRECT and synonymous. And yes, I'm shouting.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gentle
https://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/translation/more+gentle.html
| Thanks for your help Neilmac. |
United Kingdom
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Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
, English (Variant: British)
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
more graceful
Another possibility could be refined.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/graceful
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/refined
| Thanks Miss Taylor. |
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Yvonne Gallagher
: how does this fit the context?// how on earth is a DEAD animal's head "graceful"?//they might look like synonyms to you but they don't all fit the context.
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All adjectives proposed by everybody fit, they are just different options to give the idea the traits were more human than before. We are talking about the traits not the dead animal head, which by the way could not be gentle either.
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neilmac
: Graceful is not a synonym of gentle or pleasant.
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Good for you. Have a nice day. Enjoy the sunshine.
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United Kingdom
I read the Alethiometer
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish, and 1 more.
more pleasant
| Muchas gracias Cecilia. |
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Yvonne Gallagher
: no, doesn't fit here
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Simone Taylor
: I think it does.
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United Kingdom
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Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
more docile
I think you can make the distinction here between animal and human characteristics like this; the idea is not so much 'gentler' as 'less fierce', 'more docile';
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Sophie Cherel
: Gentle is good but I think docile really nails it
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Thank you!
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
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Thank you!
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Yvonne Gallagher
: gentle is fine in terms of saying the beast is looking more HUMAN each day//"docile" is often used to describe quiet, gentle animals. Here it's talking about the animal looking more human
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Personally I don't see the link, but thanks anyway;
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Simone Taylor
: Very good option!
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Mexico
Lawyer specialized in traduction
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
Gentler
| Thanks for your help Luis Alberto. I appreciate it. |
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neilmac
: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/444195/is-it-inc...
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Yvonne Gallagher
: this is 100% better than "more gentle" as used by a native speaker?! We rarely use the form "gentler". esp. not as in your examples "more gentle people" not "gentler"!!
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Simone Taylor
: It is absolutely correct to use gentler and also good to use more gentle. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/444195/is-it-inc...
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