Meaning of soft | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Easily giving way under pressure.
2. Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
3. bland
4. Quiet.
5. flabby
6. Gentle.
7. cowardly
8. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
9. flat
10. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
11. Weak in character; impressible.
12. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
13. Not bright or intense.
14. Having a slight angle from straight.
15. Voiced; sonant; lenis.
16. Voiceless.
    rare
17. Palatalized.
18. Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
    slang
19. Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
    slang
20. Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
21. Foolish.
    UK, colloquial
22. Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
23. Physically or emotionally weak.
24. Effeminate.
    UK
25. Agreeable to the senses.
26. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
27. Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
28. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
29. Emulated with software; not physically real.
30. Not likely to cause addiction.
31. Not containing alcohol.
32. Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
33. Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
34. Softcore
35. Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
36. Of paper: unsized.
37. Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
38. Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
39. Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
40. Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone.
    idiomatic, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“My head sank easily into the soft pillow.”

“My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.”

“[…] Category Two implement hitches and doubled high-traction agricultural tires hung four to each massive rear axle to breast the steepest, softest dune or guckiest swamp […]”

“Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.”

“soft silk; a soft skin”

“They that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.”

“I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.”

“Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.”

“There was a soft breeze blowing.”

“I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; / Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.”

“The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.”

“soft eyes”

“A soft answer turneth away wrath.”

“A face with gladness overspread, / Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.”

“On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.”

“The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.”

“Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.”

“soft lighting”

“At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.”

“It's important to dance on soft knees to avoid injury.”

“DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes.”

“He’s too soft for the ruthless world of finance.”

“When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.”

“‘Going soft on me, Jack?’ ‘You know I’m not.’ ‘Then why all the fuss and blow?’”

“Warden Kuril: Every day I see the worst sapient life has to offer. Governments are soft, unwilling to make the hard choices. Warden Kuril: Someone had to stand up and make the galaxy safe.”

“You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.”

“He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.”

“see: snowflake and softie”

“A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.”

“a soft liniment”

“soft wines”

“the soft, delicious air”

“soft colours”

“the soft outline of the snow-covered hill”

“The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds […] made the softest lights imaginable.”

“The admin imposed a soft ban on the user.”

“Messages removed by soft deletion can be recovered if necessary.”

“Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.”

“soft on crime”

“Overall the rental market is soft and multifamily permit activity is almost nonexistent.”

“soft humiliation play”

“soft raceplay”

“soft vore”

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