soft

1. 1

   Easily giving way under pressure.

   • My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
2. 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. 3

   Quiet.

   • I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
4. 4

   Gentle.

   • There was a soft breeze blowing.
5. 5

   Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.

   • soft eyes
6. 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. 7

   Limp, weak.

8. 8

   Weak in character; impressible.

   • The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
9. 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. 10

    Not bright or intense.

    • soft lighting

syn. cushiony · flabby · flaccid · flexible · soft · spongy · mellow · malleable · moldable · pliable · tender · yielding

ant. firm · hard · resistant · solid · stony · unyielding

1. 1

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

   • Soft you; a word or two before you goe: / I haue done the State ſome ſeruice, and they know’t: / No more of that.
   • But ſoft, what light through yonder window breaks?

1. 1

   A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.archaiccountable

   • 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. 2

   A soft drink.countableuncountable

   • 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. 3

   A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.countable

4. 4

   A soft sound or part of a sound.colloquialcountable

   • The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
5. 5

   A piece of software.countabledatednonstandard

   • Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.
6. 6

   Banknotes.UKobsoleteslang

   • Putting his mouth to my ear, he whispered hoarsely. "Do you want to buy any queer soft?" […] In my dream I had been haunted by a counterfeiter, vulgarly called "a smasher."

1. 1

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

   • A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde
   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.