Soft

Adjective

 * 1) Giving way under pressure.
 * My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
 * 1)  Smooth and flexible.
 * Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
 * 1) Gentle.
 * There was a soft breeze blowing.
 * 1) Requiring little or no effort, easy
 * a soft job
 * 1) Not bright or intense
 * ''Soft lighting
 * 1)  Having an acute angle.
 * At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the soft left.
 * 1)  Quiet.
 * I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
 * 1)  voiced, sonant
 * DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes. — The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
 * 1)   voiceless
 * 2)  palatalized
 * 3)  Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
 * When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
 * 1)  Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
 * You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
 * 1)  Foolish.
 * 2)  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)
 * 3)  Physically or emotionally weak.

Synonyms

 * non-abrasive, fluffy
 * gentle, light
 * quiet
 * meek, mild, wimpy
 * daft, foolish, silly, stupid

Antonyms

 * hard, resistant, solid, stony
 * abrasive, scratchy
 * harsh, rough, strong
 * hard
 * loud
 * firm, strict, tough
 * hard
 * sensible

Derived terms

 * soft-boiled
 * soft copy
 * soft drink
 * soften
 * soft focus
 * soft-hearted
 * softly


 * softness
 * soft on
 * soft palate
 * soft power
 * soft serve
 * soft shoe
 * soft soap


 * soft-spoken
 * soft touch
 * soft toy
 * software
 * soft wood
 * softy

Adverbs for Soft
deliciously; adorably; pleasantly; delightfully; comfortably; admirably; conveniently; invitingly; warmly; comfortingly; curiously; particularly; commendably; pliably; delicately; tenderly; compassionately; sympathetically; gently; adaptably

Thesaurus
Mickey Mouse, accented, accepting, adoring, affectionate, afraid, alveolar, anemic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, asthenic, at peace, baccate, back, balmy, barely audible, barytone, bathetic, beery, benign, bilabial, bland, bleeding, bloodless, blurred, blurry, borderline, broad, cacuminal, calm, careless, casual, central, cerebral, charitable, checked, chicken, chickenhearted, clear, clement, close, cloying, comfortable, comfy, commiserative, commodious, compassionate, complaisant, compressible, concordant, condolent, conjugal, consonant, consonantal, contented, continuant, convenient, cottony, coward, cowardly, cowed, cozy, creamy, cullible, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, daft, dainty, daunted, debilitated, deceivable, declining, decrescendo, deferential, delicate, deludable, demonstrative, dental, depressed, devoted, diffused, dim, dirty, dismayed, dissimilated, distant, docile, dorsal, doughy, downy, drooping, droopy, dull, dupable, easeful, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, effeminate, effete, effortless, eggshell, emotionable, etiolated, exploitable, facile, faint, faint-voiced, fainthearted, faintish, faithful, fatuous, fearful, feathery, feeble, feebleminded, filial, fine, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleecy, fleshy, flexible, flexile, flexuous, floppy, fluffy, foggy, fond, foolable, foolish, forbearant, forbearing, forceless, forgiving, formless, frail, friendly, front, funking, funky, furry, fuzzy, gentle, glib, glide, gloss, glossal, glottal, gone, gone to seed, gooey, green, gullible, gushing, gutless, guttural, halcyon, half-heard, hard, harmless, heavy, henhearted, high, hoaxable, homelike, homely, homey, hoodwinkable, human, humane, humbugable, husbandly, idyllic, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, impressionable, indifferent, indistinct, indulgent, infirm, ingenuous, intimidated, intonated, iridescent, judicious, kind, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, languid, languishing, languorous, lateral, lax, lazy, lenient, liberal, light, lily-livered, limber, limp, lingual, liquid, listless, lived-in, loose, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, low, low-key, lustless, luxurious, macerated, malleable, marrowless, masticated, maternal, matte, maudlin, mawkish, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, mellowy, melodious, melting, merciful, mid, mild, mild as milk, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, miry, moderate, mollified, monophthongal, mother-of-pearl, mousy, mucky, muddy, muliebrous, murmured, mushy, muted, nacreous, naive, namby-pamby, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negligent, nerveless, nonalcoholic, nonintoxicating, nonresistive, nonrigid, nonviolent, nostalgic, nostomanic, nothing to it, occlusive, off, old-womanish, on the downgrade, oozy, opalescent, open, opulent, orderly, out of condition, out of shape, out of training, overindulgent, overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, overtimid, overtimorous, oxytone, pacific, pacifistic, painless, palatal, palatalized, pale, pampered, panic-prone, panicky, pappy, parental, passible, pastel, pastoral, pasty, paternal, patient, patinaed, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, pearly, permissive, persuadable, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, piping, pitch, pitched, pithless, pithy, pitying, plain, plashy, plastic, pleasant, pliable, pliant, plush, plushy, pooped, posh, posttonic, powerless, prissy, prudent, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, puny, quaggy, questionable, quiet, rabbity, receptive, relaxed, relaxing, remiss, reposeful, responsive, restful, retroflex, rich, ritzy, romantic, roomy, rounded, rubbery, run to seed, rusty, ruthful, sad, sapless, satiny, scarcely heard, seduceable, semigloss, semivowel, sensible, sensitive, sentimental, sentimentalized, serene, silken, silky, silly, simple, simple as ABC, sinewless, sissified, sissy, sissyish, slabby, slack, sleek, slipping, slipshod, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slow, sludgy, slushy, smooth, snug, sober, soft as putty, soft-colored, soft-hued, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softened, softhearted, somber, sonant, soothing, spineless, splashy, spongy, sposhy, springlike, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, stiff, stopped, straightforward, strengthless, stressed, strong, subaudible, subdued, submissive, subtle, succulent, summery, supple, surd, susceptible, swanky, sweet, syllabic, sympathetic, sympathizing, tame, tear-jerking, teary, temperate, tender, tenderhearted, tense, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, tolerant, tonal, tonic, tranquil, turbid, twangy, unaccented, unburdensome, unclear, uncomplicated, undemanding, understanding, unhardened, uninebriating, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unprofitable, unrestrained, unrounded, unsophisticated, unstressed, unstrung, untroubled, uxorious, velar, velvety, victimizable, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warm, warmhearted, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-voiced, weakhearted, weakly, whisper-soft, whispered, white-livered, wide, wifely, witless, womanish, woolly, workable, yellow, yielding

Etymology
From softe:, from  softe:, alteration of earlier sefte:, from  from, from. Cognate with zacht:,  sanft:,  sœmr:,  samr:. More at,.

Translations

 * Arabic: ناعم
 * Chamicuro: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: mjúkur, mjúk, mjúkt
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 부드럽다 (budeureobda, -reopda)
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: mīksts
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: norom
 * Russian: (read: mjáxkij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, maoth, sèimh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мек
 * Roman: mek
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: yumuşak
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: meddal
 * Yiddish: ווײך


 * Arabic: ناعم
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 부드럽다 (budeureobda, -reopda)


 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian: myk
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Portuguese: macio, macia
 * Russian: (read: mjáxkij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, tlàth, sèimh, maoth
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: మెత్తటి (mettaTi)
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: meddal


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dolĉa
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Korean: 부드럽다 (budeureobda, -reopda)
 * Norwegian: forsiktig
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Russian: (read: mjáxkij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, maoth, caomh, tlàth
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: tyner


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Norwegian: myk


 * Russian: (read: mjáxkij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: mìn, binn
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Dutch:
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 * Norwegian:

Noun

 * 1)  soft porn
 * 2)   Software.
 * 3)   A piece of software.

Adjective

 * 1) softcore (pornography)

Etymology
From soft:

Adjective
soft


 * 1) soft (tone etc; temporary (computing))