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
- Mine turned out soft and well..soft of, bend-able, if that makes any sense?
- The ground was very soft here; the men were cutting through _soft_ granite!
- With each stroke of her hair, her lids grew heavier, her expression soft and sleepy, until she finally drifted off.
- Miss Wynter puts that glance behind her, and perhaps there is something -- something a little dangerous in the soft, _soft_ look she now turns upon him.
- In an interview published Saturday in Le Parisien newspaper, Aubry said the phrase "soft with the weak, and hard on the powerful" was one that fits her well.
- The term soft power was coined by Joseph Nye, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former official at the State and Defense departments.
- The extreme limit of soft tone is very effective in both choral and orchestral music, and most conductors seem to have no adequate notion of _how soft_ the tone may be made in such passages.
- Besides, Bush was not going to be impressed by any bumper sticker with the word soft in it, especially since, according to the polls, he had considerable support where it really mattered—among the American people.
- Each of these varieties may be had in two grades, according to the negative in hand or the effect desired in the print, viz.: _hard_, for use with soft negatives where we desire to get vigor or contrast in the print, and _soft_, for use with hard negatives where softness of effect is desired in the print.
- The organs of speech are the lungs and bronchial tubes; the throat, particularly that part of it which is known as the larynx or, in popular parlance, the Adams apple; the nose; the uvula, which is the soft, pointed, and easily movable organ that depends from the rear of the palate; the palate, which is divided into a posterior, movable soft palate or velum and a hard palate; the tongue; the teeth; and the lips.
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