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▸ adjective: (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
▸ adjective: (of a sound) Quiet.
▸ adjective: Gentle.
▸ adjective: Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
▸ adjective: Gentle in action or motion; easy.
▸ adjective: Weak in character; impressible.
▸ adjective: Requiring little or no effort; easy.
▸ adjective: Not bright or intense.
▸ adjective: Having a slight angle from straight.
▸ adjective: (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
▸ adjective: (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
▸ adjective: (Slavic, phonology) Palatalized.
▸ adjective: (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
▸ adjective: (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
▸ adjective: (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
▸ adjective: (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)
▸ adjective: (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
▸ adjective: (UK, of a man) Effeminate.
▸ adjective: Agreeable to the senses.
▸ adjective: Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
▸ adjective: (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
▸ adjective: Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
▸ adjective: (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
▸ adjective: (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
▸ adjective: (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
▸ adjective: Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
▸ adjective: (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
▸ adjective: (of pornography) Softcore.
▸ adjective: Of paper: unsized.
▸ adjective: Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
▸ adjective: Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
▸ adjective: Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
▸ noun: (countable) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
▸ noun: (countable, colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
▸ noun: (countable, computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
▸ noun: (UK, slang, obsolete, uncountable) Banknotes.
▸ adverb: (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
▸ noun: (countable, motor racing) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)
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squeezable,
yielding,
compressible,
compliant,
indulgent,
permissive,
quiet,
lenient,
easy,
soft-spoken,
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