| soft | |
| 1. adj. Easily giving way under pressure. | |
| My head sank easily into the soft pillow. | |
| 2. adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. | |
| Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching. | |
| soft silk; a soft skin | |
| 3. adj. (of a sound) Quiet. | |
| I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees. | |
| 4. adj. Gentle. | |
| There was a soft breeze blowing. | |
| 5. adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind. | |
| soft eyes | |
| 6. adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy. | |
| 7. adj. Weak in character; impressible. | |
| 8. adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy. | |
| 9. adj. Not bright or intense. | |
| soft lighting | |
| 10. adj. 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. | |
| 11. adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant. | |
| 12. adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless | |
| 13. adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized | |
| 14. adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy. | |
| When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come. | |
| 15. adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds. | |
| You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft. | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Foolish. | |
| 17. adj. (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) | |
| 18. adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak. | |
| 19. adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action. | |
| The admin imposed a soft block/ban on the user or a soft lock on the article. | |
| 20. adj. (of a man) Effeminate. | |
| 21. adj. Agreeable to the senses. | |
| a soft liniment | |
| soft wines | |
| 22. adj. 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 | |
| 23. interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. | |
| 24. adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. | |
| 25. subst. A soft or foolish person; an idiot. | |
| 26. subst. (motorsports) (ellipsis of soft tyre) (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.) | |
