soft

adjective softer · softest

1. Easily giving way under pressure. My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
2. Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
3. Quiet. I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
4. Gentle. There was a soft breeze blowing.
5. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind. soft eyes
6. Gentle in action or motion; easy. On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
7. Limp, weak.
8. Weak in character; impressible. The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
9. Requiring little or no effort; easy. 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.
10. Not bright or intense. soft lighting
11. Having a slight angle from straight. At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.
12. Voiced; sonant; lenis. DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes.
13. rare Voiceless.
14. Palatalized.
15. slang Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing. He’s too soft for the ruthless world of finance.
16. slang Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy. When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
17. Low in dissolved calcium compounds. You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
18. UK, colloquial Foolish. He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
19. 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)
20. Physically or emotionally weak. see: snowflake and softie
21. UK Effeminate. A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.
22. Agreeable to the senses. a soft liniment
23. UK, dated, slang Agreeable generally; pleasant. And then there'll be the insurance people. And then a young man introducing himself as "The Press". I'll tell you what, sergeant, this being burgled isn't such a soft thing after all.
24. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye. soft colours
25. Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
26. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action. The admin imposed a soft ban on the user.
27. Emulated with software; not physically real. Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.
28. Not likely to cause addiction.
29. Not containing alcohol.
30. Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive. soft on crime
31. Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market. Overall the rental market is soft and multifamily permit activity is almost nonexistent.
32. Softcore
33. Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements. soft humiliation play
34. Of paper: unsized.
35. Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
36. Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
37. Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
38. idiomatic, informal Attracted to or emotionally involved (with someone).
39. UK, slang Fake; counterfeit. All along, Nickle, I have tried to make you realise that this stroke was not to be a matter of planting a few soft fivers on racecourse bookies—I used to think that you had imagination. We intend to make notes of all the values and chiefly of the big ones.

Similar: cushiony, flabby, flaccid, flexible, soft, spongy, mellow, malleable, moldable, pliable, tender, yielding

interjection

1. archaic Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. Soft you; a word or two before you goe: / I haue done the State ſome ſeruice, and they know’t: / No more of that.

noun softs

1. archaic, countable A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot. It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.
2. countable, uncountable A soft drink. Artois' story with water and softs was embodied in the difficult relationship between Raymond Boon and Spa's main owner and CEO, Guy du Bois.
3. countable A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
4. colloquial, countable A soft sound or part of a sound. The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
5. countable, dated, nonstandard, rare A piece of software. Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.
6. UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Banknotes. At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes).

adverb more soft · most soft

1. obsolete Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde