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.