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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{enPR|sŏft|a=RP}}, {{IPA|en|/sɒft/}} |
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** {{IPA|en|/sɔːft/|a=Conservative RP}} |
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* {{enPR|sôft|a=GA}}, {{IPA|en|/sɔft/}} |
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* {{IPA|en|/sɑft/|a=cot-caught}}, {{enPR|sŏft}} |
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* {{audio|en|En-us-soft.ogg| |
* {{audio|en|En-us-soft.ogg|a=GA}} |
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* {{enPR|săft|a=Southern US,obsolete}}, {{IPA|en|/sæft/}}<ref>{{R:Stanley SET|I|8|22}}</ref> |
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* {{rhymes|en|ɒft|s=1}} |
* {{rhymes|en|ɒft|s=1}} |
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# Easily giving way under pressure. |
# Easily giving way under pressure. |
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#: {{ux|en|My head sank easily into the '''soft''' pillow.}} |
#: {{ux|en|My head sank easily into the '''soft''' pillow.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=September 9, 2007|author=Sara Dickerman|title=Olympic Dinners|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09food-t.html |
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|passage=My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a '''softer''', pudgier feta.}} |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Robert Beeman|title=No More Time for Sorrow|page=133 |
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|passage={{...}} Category Two implement hitches and doubled high-traction agricultural tires hung four to each massive rear axle to breast the steepest, '''softest''' dune or guckiest swamp {{...}}}} |
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# {{lb|en|of cloth or similar material}} Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. |
# {{lb|en|of cloth or similar material}} Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. |
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#: {{ux|en|Polish the silver with a '''soft''' cloth to avoid scratching.}} |
#: {{ux|en|Polish the silver with a '''soft''' cloth to avoid scratching.}} |
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|passage=A face with gladness overspread, / '''Soft''' smiles, by human kindness bred.}} |
|passage=A face with gladness overspread, / '''Soft''' smiles, by human kindness bred.}} |
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# Gentle in action or motion; easy. |
# Gentle in action or motion; easy. |
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#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|VIII|passage=On her '''soft''' axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.}} |
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=VIII|passage=On her '''soft''' axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.|year=1873}} |
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# Weak in character; impressible. |
# Weak in character; impressible. |
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#* {{RQ:Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica|passage=The deceiver soon found this '''soft''' place of Adam's.}} |
#* {{RQ:Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica|passage=The deceiver soon found this '''soft''' place of Adam's.}} |
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|passage=DH represents the voiced ('''soft''') ''th'' of English ''these clothes''.}} |
|passage=DH represents the voiced ('''soft''') ''th'' of English ''these clothes''.}} |
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# {{lb|en|phonetics|rare}} [[voiceless|Voiceless]]. |
# {{lb|en|phonetics|rare}} [[voiceless|Voiceless]]. |
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# {{lb|en|Slavic |
# {{lb|en|Slavic|phonology}} [[palatalized|Palatalized]]. |
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# {{lb|en|slang}} Lacking [[strength]] or [[resolve]]; not [[tough]], [[wimpy]]. |
# {{lb|en|slang}} Lacking [[strength]] or [[resolve]]; not [[tough]], [[wimpy]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|When it comes to drinking, he is as '''soft''' as they come.}} |
#: {{ux|en|When it comes to drinking, he is as '''soft''' as they come.}} |
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#: {{ux|en|a '''soft''' liniment}} |
#: {{ux|en|a '''soft''' liniment}} |
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#: {{ux|en|'''soft''' wines}} |
#: {{ux|en|'''soft''' wines}} |
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#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|II|passage=the '''soft''', delicious air}} |
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=II|passage=the '''soft''', delicious air|year=1873}} |
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# Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye. |
# Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye. |
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#: {{ux|en|'''soft''' colours}} |
#: {{ux|en|'''soft''' colours}} |
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|soft drink |
|soft drink |
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|soft flimsy |
|soft flimsy|go soft|soft-close |
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|soft focus |
|soft focus |
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|soft girl |
|soft girl |
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|softwood |
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|fail-soft|semi-soft|soft a|soft atheism|soft atheist|soft begging|soft bigotry of low expectations|soft boiled|soft boxing|soft boy|soft break|soft Brexit|soft butch|soft c|soft canon|soft capping|soft chancre|soft cheese|soft coal|soft coral|soft coup|soft deletion|soft dollars|soft drug|soft elm|soft error|soft fork|soft fox sedge|soft fruit|soft funding|soft g|soft hand|soft handed|soft hands|soft hyphen|soft in the head|soft jade|soft key|soft kill|soft land|soft landing|soft launch|soft link|soft lithography|soft loan|soft maple|soft matte|soft Mick|soft money|soft mutation|soft news|soft opening|soft ordnance|soft paraffin|soft paste|soft paywall|soft pedal|soft peddle|soft photon|soft pine|soft play|soft point|soft reboot|soft redirect|soft reference|soft robot|soft robotics|soft rock|soft roe|soft rot|soft rush|soft sawder|soft science|soft sectoring|soft sell|soft served|soft shoulder|soft skill|soft snap|soft spot|soft steel|soft sub|soft surfboard|soft swap|soft tack|soft target|soft tennis|soft thing|soft tick|soft tissue|soft tommy|soft top|soft tortoise|soft underbelly|soft water|soft wheat|soft X-ray|soft-block|soft-core|soft-dotted|soft-grain|soft-handed|soft-headed|soft-heartedly|soft-heartedness|soft-land|soft-liner|soft-minded|soft-mindedly|soft-mindedness|soft-on|soft-paste|soft-pedal|soft-sawder|soft-sectored|soft-served|soft-shell turtle|soft-shelled turtle|soft-shoe|soft-soap|soft-sub |
|fail-soft|semi-soft|soft a|soft atheism|soft atheist|soft begging|soft bigotry of low expectations|soft boiled|soft boxing|soft boy|soft break|soft Brexit|soft butch|soft c|soft canon|soft capping|soft chancre|soft cheese|soft coal|soft coral|soft coup|soft deletion|soft dollars|soft drug|soft elm|soft error|soft fork|soft fox sedge|soft fruit|soft funding|soft g|soft hand|soft handed|soft hands|soft hyphen|soft in the head|soft jade|soft key|soft kill|soft land|soft landing|soft launch|soft link|soft lithography|soft loan|soft maple|soft matte|soft media|soft Mick|soft money|soft mutation|soft news|soft opening|soft ordnance|soft paraffin|soft paste|soft paywall|soft pedal|soft peddle|soft photon|soft pine|soft play|soft point|soft reboot|soft redirect|soft reference|soft robot|soft robotics|soft rock|soft roe|soft rot|soft rush|soft sawder|soft science|soft sectoring|soft sell|soft served|soft shoulder|soft skill|soft snap|soft spot|soft steel|soft sub|soft surfboard|soft swap|soft tack|soft target|soft tennis|soft thing|soft tick|soft tissue|soft tommy|soft top|soft tortoise|soft underbelly|soft water|soft wheat|soft X-ray|soft-block|soft-core|soft-dotted|soft-grain|soft-handed|soft-headed|soft-heartedly|soft-heartedness|soft-land|soft-liner|soft-minded|soft-mindedly|soft-mindedness|soft-on|soft-paste|soft-pedal|soft-sawder|soft-sectored|soft-served|soft-shell turtle|soft-shelled turtle|soft-shoe|soft-soap|soft-sub |
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* Dolgan: {{t|dlg|һымнагас}} |
* Dolgan: {{t|dlg|һымнагас}} |
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|zacht}} |
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|zacht}} |
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* Eastern Khanty: {{t|kca-eas|њамәк}} |
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* Erzya: {{t|myv|чевте}} |
* Erzya: {{t|myv|чевте}} |
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* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|mola}} |
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|mola}} |
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*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἁπαλός}}, {{t|grc|μαλακός}}, {{t|grc|μαλθακός}} |
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἁπαλός}}, {{t|grc|μαλακός}}, {{t|grc|μαλθακός}} |
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* Hawaiian: {{t|haw|palupalu}}, {{t|haw|waliwali}} |
* Hawaiian: {{t|haw|palupalu}}, {{t|haw|waliwali}} |
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* Hebrew: {{t+|he| |
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|רַךְ|tr=rach}} |
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* Hindi: {{t+|hi|कोमल}}, {{t+|hi|नरम}} |
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|कोमल}}, {{t+|hi|नरम}} |
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|lágy}}, {{t+|hu|puha}} |
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|lágy}}, {{t+|hu|puha}} |
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* Ingush: {{t|inh|кӏаьда}} |
* Ingush: {{t|inh|кӏаьда}} |
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* Inuinnaqtun: {{t|ikt|aqittuq}} |
* Inuinnaqtun: {{t|ikt|aqittuq}} |
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* Inuktitut: |
* Inuktitut: |
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*: Inuttut: {{t|iu|aĸittuk}}, {{t|iu|ĸituttuk}} |
*: Inuttut: {{t|iu|aĸittuk}}, {{t|iu|ĸituttuk}} |
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*: North Baffin: {{t|iu|ᐊᕿᑦᑐᖅ|tr=aqittuq}} |
*: North Baffin: {{t|iu|ᐊᕿᑦᑐᖅ|tr=aqittuq}} |
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{{trans-top-see|phonetics: voiced, sonant, lenis|voiced}} |
{{trans-top-see|phonetics: voiced, sonant, lenis|voiced}} |
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==Czech== |
==Czech== |
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===Pronunciation=== |
===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{fr-IPA|softe}} |
* {{fr-IPA|softe}} |
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* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-soft.wav |
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-soft.wav}} |
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====Related terms==== |
====Related terms==== |
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* {{l|sv|softa}} |
* {{l|sv|softa}} |
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===References=== |
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* [https://www.slangopedia.se/ordlista/?ord=soft Slangopedia] |
Latest revision as of 03:50, 28 September 2024
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sŏft, IPA(key): /sɒft/
- (General American) enPR: sôft, IPA(key): /sɔft/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /sɑft/, enPR: sŏft
Audio (General American): (file) - (Southern US, obsolete) enPR: săft, IPA(key): /sæft/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɒft
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
Adjective
[edit]soft (comparative softer, superlative softest)
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
- 2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in New York Times[1]:
- My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.
- 2010, Robert Beeman, No More Time for Sorrow, page 133:
- […] Category Two implement hitches and doubled high-traction agricultural tires hung four to each massive rear axle to breast the steepest, softest dune or guckiest swamp […]
- (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
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:8:
- They that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
- (of a sound) Quiet.
- I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
- Gentle.
- There was a soft breeze blowing.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; / Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.
- c. 1533, William Tyndale, An exposicion upon of Mathew:
- The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- soft eyes
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:1:
- A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, To a Highland Girl:
- A face with gladness overspread, / Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
- 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.
- Not bright or intense.
- soft lighting
- 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.
- (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings:
- DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes.
- (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
- (Slavic, phonology) Palatalized.
- (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:
- ‘Going soft on me, Jack?’ ‘You know I’m not.’ ‘Then why all the fuss and blow?’
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Prison Ship Purgatory:
- Warden Kuril: Every day I see the worst sapient life has to offer. Governments are soft, unwilling to make the hard choices.
Warden Kuril: Someone had to stand up and make the galaxy safe.
- (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
- (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy:
- He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
- (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)
- (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
- (UK, of a man) Effeminate.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living:
- A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- a soft liniment
- soft wines
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- the soft, delicious air
- 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
- 1673, Edward Browne, A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria, Styria, Bulgaria, Thessaly, Austria, Serbia, Carynthia, Carniola, and Friuli:
- The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds […] made the softest lights imaginable.
- (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- 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.
- (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.
- (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
- (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
- Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
- soft on crime
- (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- Antonym: hard
- 1995, U.S. Housing Market Conditions, page 45:
- Overall the rental market is soft and multifamily permit activity is almost nonexistent.
- (of pornography) Softcore.
- Of paper: unsized.
- Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
- Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
- Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (giving way under pressure): see Thesaurus:soft
- (of a cloth): non-abrasive, fluffy
- (gentle): gentle, light, nesh
- (of a sound): quiet
- (lacking strength or resolve): meek, mild, wimpy, nesh
- (foolish): daft, foolish, silly, stupid
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “giving way under pressure”): hard, resistant, solid, stony
- (antonym(s) of “of a cloth”): abrasive, scratchy
- (antonym(s) of “gentle”): harsh, rough, strong
- (antonym(s) of “acute”): hard
- (antonym(s) of “of a sound”): loud
- (antonym(s) of “lacking strength or resolve”): firm, strict, tough
- (antonym(s) of “of water”): hard
- (antonym(s) of “foolish”): sensible
Derived terms
[edit]- airsoft
- failsoft
- hypersoft
- mallsoft
- nonsoft
- oversoft
- semisoft
- Softail
- softback
- softbacked
- softball
- softbill
- softboard
- softbottom
- softbound
- softbox
- softboy
- softcoat
- softcode
- softcover
- softcovered
- soften
- softgel
- softgoods
- softhead
- softheaded
- softhearted
- softie
- softish
- softleaf
- softline
- softling
- softlock
- softly
- softmask
- softness
- softnose
- softpaste
- softplay
- softplus
- softroader
- softscape
- softshell
- softship
- softsub
- softtail
- softwall
- softwater
- softwear
- softy
- ultrasoft
- unsoft
- fail-soft
- go soft
- semi-soft
- silky soft
- soft 404
- soft a
- soft as a baby's bottom
- soft as silk
- soft atheism
- soft atheist
- soft begging
- soft bigotry of low expectations
- soft-block
- soft boiled
- soft-boiled
- soft boxing
- soft boy
- soft break
- soft Brexit
- soft butch
- soft c
- soft canon
- soft capping
- soft chancre
- soft cheese
- soft-close
- soft coal
- soft copy
- soft coral
- soft-core
- soft corner
- soft coup
- soft deletion
- soft determinism
- soft determinist
- soft dollars
- soft-dotted
- soft drink
- soft drug
- soft elm
- soft error
- soft flimsy
- soft focus
- soft fork
- soft fox sedge
- soft fruit
- soft funding
- soft g
- soft girl
- soft goods
- soft-grain
- soft grunge
- soft hand
- soft-handed
- soft handed
- soft hands
- soft-headed
- soft-hearted
- soft-heartedly
- soft-heartedness
- soft hyphen
- soft in the head
- soft jade
- soft key
- soft kill
- soft-land
- soft land
- soft landing
- soft-launch
- soft launch
- soft-liner
- soft link
- soft lithography
- soft loan
- soft luxury
- soft maple
- soft market
- soft matte
- soft media
- soft Mick
- soft-minded
- soft-mindedly
- soft-mindedness
- soft mode
- soft money
- soft mutation
- soft news
- soft-nosed
- softnose, soft-nose, soft nose
- soft on
- soft-on
- soft opening
- soft ordnance
- soft palate
- soft paraffin
- soft paste
- soft-paste
- soft paywall
- soft pedal
- soft-pedal
- soft-pedal, soft pedal
- soft peddle
- soft photon
- soft pine
- soft play
- soft point
- soft-point
- soft power
- soft real-time
- soft reboot
- soft redirect
- soft reference
- soft return
- soft robot
- soft robot
- soft robotics
- soft rock
- soft roe
- soft rot
- soft rush
- soft sawder
- soft-sawder
- soft science
- soft science fiction
- soft-sectored
- soft sectoring
- soft sell
- soft serve
- soft-served
- soft served
- soft-shelled turtle
- soft-shell turtle
- soft-shoe
- soft shoe
- soft shoulder
- soft sign
- soft skill
- soft snap
- soft soap
- soft-soap
- soft-spoken
- soft spot
- soft steel
- soft-sub
- soft sub
- soft surfboard
- soft swap
- soft tack
- soft target
- soft tennis
- soft thing
- soft tick
- soft tissue
- soft tommy
- soft top
- soft tortoise
- soft touch
- soft toy
- soft underbelly
- software
- soft water
- soft wheat
- softwood
- soft X-ray
Translations
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See also
[edit]Interjection
[edit]soft
- (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Soft, you; a word or two before you go.
But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
Noun
[edit]soft (plural softs)
- A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
- 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 9, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first:
- 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.
- (motor racing) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)
- (colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
- 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103:
- The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
- (computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
- December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly:
- Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.
- December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly:
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte (“softly”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftō (“softly”).
Adverb
[edit]soft (comparative more soft, superlative most soft)
- (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
- A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, , →ISBN, § 8, page 22.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English soft(ware).
Noun
[edit]soft m inan
- (colloquial) software, program
- 18 March 1999, CD-R 74min X 80min, Group cz.comp.ibmpc:
- Zajimalo by mne, zda jsou tyto CD schopna pracovat na plnou kapacitu s normalnimi vypalovackami a beznym softem nebo je na ne potreba mit extra vypalovadlo i soft?
- 19 March 2009, Zalohovaci SW, Group cz.talk:
- Pokud těch dat máte víc, pak tím TARem stačí zálohovat základ systému a zbytek řešit zálohovacím softem, kterej umí dělit archiv na několik pásek.
- 2 April 2010, gsm modul / telefon, Group cz.comp.linux:
- ma nekdo nejake zkusenosti s takovym zarizenim ci softem kterym to ovladat?
- 18 March 1999, CD-R 74min X 80min, Group cz.comp.ibmpc:
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “soft”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “soft”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “soft”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]soft m (plural softs)
Adjective
[edit]soft (plural softs)
- softcore (pornography)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English soft.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]soft (invariable)
- soft (tone etc.; temporary (computing))
References
[edit]- ^ soft in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English software.
Noun
[edit]soft n (plural softuri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) soft | softul | (niște) softuri | softurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) soft | softului | (unor) softuri | softurilor |
vocative | softule | softurilor |
Swedish
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]soft (comparative softare, superlative softast)
- (slang) nice and/or laid-back; chill
- Antonym: osoft
- en soft snubbe
- a chill guy
- Det ska bli riktigt soft med några dagar ledigt
- It's gonna be real chill to have a few days off
- Soft att du klarade provet!
- Nice that you passed the test!
Declension
[edit]Inflection of soft | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | soft | softare | softast |
Neuter singular | soft | softare | softast |
Plural | softa | softare | softast |
Masculine plural3 | softe | softare | softast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | softe | softare | softaste |
All | softa | softare | softaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
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