Usually means: Yielding easily to touch, pressure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. soft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. soft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. soft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. soft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Soft, soft: Wordnik
  7. soft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -soft, soft: Wiktionary
  9. soft: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. SOFT: Dictionary.com
  11. soft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. soft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Soft (band), Soft (wine), Soft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Soft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. soft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. soft: Rhymezone
  17. soft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. soft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Soft: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. soft: Free Dictionary
  21. soft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. soft: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. soft: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. soft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  25. soft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. soft: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOFT: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. soft: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft, soft, soft: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Soft: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Soft: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. S.O.F.T: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Soft: Gambling Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. soft: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  3. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  4. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Easily giving way under pressure.
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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