SOFT
-adj.
1. easy to dent, work, or cut without shattering; malleable
2. not hard; giving little or no resistance to pressure or
weight
3. fine, light, smooth, or fluffy to the touch
4. gentle; tranquil
5. (of music, sounds, etc.) low and pleasing
6. (of light, colour, etc.) not excessively bright or harsh
7. (of a breeze, climate, etc.) temperate, mild, or pleasant
8. (dialect) drizzly or rainy
9. slightly blurred; not sharply outlined
10. (of a diet) consisting of easily digestible foods
11, kind or lenient, often excessively so
12, easy to influence or impose upon
13, prepared to compromise; not doctrinaire
14.(informal) feeble or silly; simple (often in the phrase soft
in the head)
15. unable to endure hardship, especially through too much
pampering
16. physically out of condition; flabby
17. loving; tender
18. (informal) requiring little exertion; easy
19. (chemistry) (of water) relatively free of mineral salts
and therefore easily able to make soap lather
20. (of a drug such as cannabis) non-addictive or only
mildly addictive
21. (of news coverage) concentrating on trivial stories or
those with human interest
22. (phonetics) .
a. an older word for lenis
b. (not in technical usage) denoting the consonants c and g
in English when they are pronounced as palatal or alveolar fricatives or
affricates (s, /(dʒ)/,
/(ʃ)/, /(ð)/, /(tʃ)/) before e and i,
rather than as velar stops (k, g)
c. (in the Slavonic languages) palatalized before a front
vowel or a special character (soft sign) written as Ь
23. unprotected against attack
24. (military) unarmoured, especially as applied to a truck
by comparison with a tank
25. (finance, mainly US) (of prices, a market, etc.)
unstable and tending to decline
26. (of a currency) in relatively little demand, especially
because of a weak balance of payments situation
27. (of radiation, such as X-rays and ultraviolet radiation)
having low energy and not capable of deep penetration of materials
28. (physics) (of valves or tubes) only partially evacuated
29. related to the performance of non-specific, non-definable
tasks
-adv.
30. in a soft manner
-noun
31. a soft object, part, or piece
Soft in form
Fiery in colours
She purrs soft
And complains hard
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