soft

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Adjective

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.
   • soft silk; a soft skin
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.
7. Limp, weak.
8. Weak in character; impressible.
9. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
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.
    • It's important to dance on soft knees to avoid injury.
12. Voiced; sonant; lenis.
13. Voiceless.
14. Palatalized.
15. Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
    • He’s too soft for the ruthless world of finance.
16. Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
    • When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
    • The field of opponents at this tournament is looking soft.
17. Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
    • You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
18. Foolish.
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. Effeminate.
22. Agreeable to the senses.
    • a soft liniment
    • soft wines
23. Agreeable generally; pleasant.
24. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
    • soft colours
    • the soft outline of the snow-covered hill
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.
    • Messages removed by soft deletion can be recovered if necessary.
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.
32. Softcore
33. Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
    • soft humiliation play
    • soft raceplay
    • soft vore
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. Attracted to or emotionally involved (with someone).
39. Fake; counterfeit.

Interjection

1. Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Noun

1. A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
2. A soft drink.
3. A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
4. A soft sound or part of a sound.
5. A piece of software.
6. Banknotes.

Adverb

1. Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

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