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Definition of Soft

Soft Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal. Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin. Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints. Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music. Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind. Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes. Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak. Gentle in action or motion; easy. Weak in character; impressible. Somewhat weak in intellect. Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers. Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines. Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing. Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard. Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc. A soft or foolish person; an idiot. Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. Related Definitions: Abrupt, Action, Adapted, Agreeable, Also, An, And, Angular, Applied, As, Be, Bed, Belonging, Best, By, Cent, Character, Class, Color, Conciliatory, Cone, Considered, Consisting, Consonant, Contrast, Courageous, Courteous, Curve, Cut, Decompose, Delicate, Dental, Distinguished, Ear, Earth, Easily, Easy, Effeminate, Exciting, Expressing, Eye, Fast, Feel, Fine, Firm, Flexible, Flowing, Foolish, For, Force, From, Gem, Gentle, Gentleness, Gently, Glaring, Go, Guttural, Hard, Harsh, Harshness, Having, Hence, Hold, Idiot, Impressed, Impressible, In, Influence, Inhale, Intellect, Intensity, Involving, Irritating, Is, Kind, Less, Like, Liniment, Malleable, Manly, Metal, Mild, Mineral, Molded, Motion, Music, Mute, Not, Of, Offensive, Opposed, Or, Palatal, Peach, Person, Pleasing, Pressure, Quiet, Quietly, Resisting, Rough, Roughness, Rugged, Sibilant, Sight, Silk, Skin, Smooth, So, Soap, Soft, Softly, Somewhat, Sonant, Sound, Stop, Surd, Susceptible, Taste, Tenderness, The, Tinged, To, Touch, Utterance, Violent, Washing, Water, Weak, With, Without, Wood, Yielding

Soft Quotations In soft regions are born soft men. Herodotus If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. Samuel Johnson

Soft Translations soft in Afrikaans is lieflik, soet, sag soft in Dutch is zoet, zacht, liefelijk soft in French is moelleux, alcoolsans, mou, doux soft in German is weich, weich, sanft, sanft soft in Italian is placido, soffice, dolce soft in Latin is tener tenera tenerum, mollis, mansuetus, madidus soft in Portuguese is macio soft in Spanish is tierno, dulce, blando, placido soft in Swedish is vek, mild, len, mjuk, veklig, blid

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