soft

IPA: sˈɑft

noun

  • A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
  • (colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
  • (computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
  • (motor racing) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)

adjective

  • Easily giving way under pressure.
  • (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
  • (of a sound) Quiet.
  • Gentle.
  • Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
  • Gentle in action or motion; easy.
  • Weak in character; impressible.
  • Requiring little or no effort; easy.
  • Not bright or intense.
  • Having a slight angle from straight.
  • (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
  • (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
  • (Slavic phonology) Palatalized.
  • (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
  • (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
  • (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
  • (physics) 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)
  • (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
  • (UK, of a man) Effeminate.
  • Agreeable to the senses.
  • Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
  • (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
  • Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
  • (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
  • (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
  • (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
  • Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
  • (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
  • (of pornography) Softcore.
  • Of paper: unsized.
  • Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
  • Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
  • Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.

adverb

  • (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
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Examples of "soft" in Sentences

  • Handling was soft and ponderous.
  • It keeps the skin supple and soft.
  • I like the softness of the surface.
  • The dry skin should now be totally supple and soft.
  • No soft tissue connects the bone to the surface of the implant.
  • Addax skin can be processed into a very luxuriant soft leather.
  • I'm just a stupid country bumpkin with great skin and soft hands.
  • The ventral surface of our head is the soft stuff under the chin.
  • The soft palate is the soft tissue that makes up the roof of the mouth.

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