How to pronounce “soft”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Easily giving way under pressure.
• (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• (of a sound) Quiet.
• Gentle.
• Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• Weak in character; impressible.
• Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• Not bright or intense.
• Having a slight angle from straight.
• (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
• (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
• (Slavic, phonology) Palatalized.
• (slang) Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
• (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
• (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
• (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.
• Agreeable to the senses.
• Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• (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.
• (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
• (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
• (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
• Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
• (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
• (of pornography) Softcore
• (of kinks or sexual activity) Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
• 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.
• (informal, idiomatic, followed by on) Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone.
• [Interjection]
• (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• [Noun]
• (countable, archaic) A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
• A soft drink.
• (countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
• (countable, colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
• (countable, computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
• (UK, slang, obsolete, uncountable) Banknotes.
• [Adverb]
• (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Practice Nearby Words

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