soft

Etymology 1
From, from , alteration of earlier , from (compare ), from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at,.

Adjective

 * 1) Easily giving way under pressure.
 * 2)  Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
 * 3)  Quiet.
 * 4) Gentle.
 * 5) Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
 * 6) Gentle in action or motion; easy.
 * 7) Weak in character; impressible.
 * 8) Requiring little or no effort; easy.
 * 9) Not bright or intense.
 * 10) Having a slight angle from straight.
 * 11)  Voiced; sonant; lenis.
 * 12)  Voiceless.
 * 13)  Palatalized.
 * 14)  Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
 * 15)  Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
 * 16)  Foolish.
 * 17)  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)
 * 18)  Physically or emotionally weak.
 * 19)  Effeminate.
 * 20) Agreeable to the senses.
 * 21) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
 * 22)  Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
 * 23) Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
 * 24)  Emulated with software; not physically real.
 * 25)  Not likely to cause addiction.
 * 26)  Not containing alcohol.
 * 27) Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
 * 28)  Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
 * 29)  Softcore.
 * 30) Of paper: unsized.
 * 31) Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
 * 32) Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
 * 33) Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
 * 1)  Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
 * 2)  Foolish.
 * 3)  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)
 * 4)  Physically or emotionally weak.
 * 5)  Effeminate.
 * 6) Agreeable to the senses.
 * 7) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
 * 8)  Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
 * 9) Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
 * 10)  Emulated with software; not physically real.
 * 11)  Not likely to cause addiction.
 * 12)  Not containing alcohol.
 * 13) Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
 * 14)  Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
 * 15)  Softcore.
 * 16) Of paper: unsized.
 * 17) Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
 * 18) Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
 * 19) Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
 * 1)  Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
 * 2) Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
 * 3)  Emulated with software; not physically real.
 * 4)  Not likely to cause addiction.
 * 5)  Not containing alcohol.
 * 6) Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
 * 7)  Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
 * 8)  Softcore.
 * 9) Of paper: unsized.
 * 10) Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
 * 11) Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
 * 12) Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
 * 1)  Softcore.
 * 2) Of paper: unsized.
 * 3) Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
 * 4) Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
 * 5) Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
 * 1) Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:soft

Translations

 * Abkhaz: атата
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَاعِم, لين
 * Egyptian Arabic: نَاعِم
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: moali
 * Assamese: নৰম
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: йомшаҡ
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: мня́гкый
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: humok
 * Chamicuro: kala chmawa, pe'cha
 * Chechen: кӏеда
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 軟
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: yumşaq, yımşaq
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sagte
 * Dolgan: һымнагас
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: чевте
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: немумэ
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: mol
 * Galician:, dondo, olmo, nidio
 * Georgian: რბილი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἁπαλός, μαλακός, μαλθακός
 * Hawaiian: palupalu, waliwali
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: nalukneng
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: pehmiä
 * Ingush: кӏаьда
 * Inuinnaqtun: aqittuq
 * Inuktitut:
 * Inuttut: aĸittuk, ĸituttuk
 * North Baffin: ᐊᕿᑦᑐᖅ
 * South Baffin: ᐊᕿᑦᑐᖅ
 * Irish: bog
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Ivatan: mahma
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Jingpho: mäni, nu
 * Kapampangan: malambut
 * Karachay-Balkar: джумушакъ
 * Karaim: йымшакъ
 * Kazakh: жұмсақ
 * Khakas: нымзах
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: йымышакъ
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ນຸ່ມ
 * Latgalian: meiksts
 * Latin: mollis
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: minkštas
 * Livonian: pīemdõ
 * Lombard: mòll
 * Luxembourgish: weech, mëll, siddeleg
 * Macedonian: мек
 * Malay: lembut
 * Manchu: ᡥᠠᡳᡥᡡ, ᡠᡥᡠᡴᡝᠨ
 * Maori: māngohe, kōparuparu, kūteretere , pūngahungahu, pūngorungoru
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nogai: юмсак
 * Norman: mo
 * Norwegian:, myk
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: мѧкъкъ
 * Old English: hnesċe, sēfte
 * Old Javanese: lĕmbut
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: wieekj, saunft
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: api
 * Rohingya: norom
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: lom
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: modde, moddi, moddu, modhe, modhi, modhu
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, maoth, sèimh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ме̏к
 * Roman:
 * Sherpa: འཇམ་པུ
 * Shor: чымчақ
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: mäkký
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: jilicsan
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: měki
 * Southern Altai: јымжак
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: malambot
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: nam
 * Tat: nərm
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian B: lalaṃṣke
 * Tofa: чымҷақ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýumşak
 * Tuvan: чымчак
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کومل, نرم
 * Urum: йымшах, йумшах
 * Uyghur: يۇمشاق
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: mòlo, moło, mol, tènaro
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: muag
 * Yakut: сымнаҕас
 * Yiddish: ווייך


 * Arabic: نَاعِم
 * Bashkir: йомшаҡ
 * Bikol Central: mayumok
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, dondio, dondo, mácio
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μαλακός, μαλθακός
 * Hawaiian: nahenahe
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ingrian: neežnoi
 * Irish: bog
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نەرم
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: mollis
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: māeneene, mania, newanewa
 * Norman: mo
 * Norwegian: myk
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: мѧкъкъ
 * Old English: hnesċe, sēfte
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, tlàth, sèimh, maoth
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ווייך


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: polinahe
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نەرم,
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: riki, ririki, mārire
 * Norwegian: myk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mìn, binn
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:, khẽ khàng


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 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, , , sangal, manseliño
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: bog, tláith
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: momohe
 * Norwegian: forsiktig
 * Old Church Slavonic: мѧкъкъ
 * Old English: sēfte
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: lind
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bog, maoth, caomh, tlàth
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
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Interjection

 * 1)  Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Noun

 * 1) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
 * 2)   A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
 * 3)  A soft sound or part of a sound.
 * 4)  A piece of software.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Adverb

 * 1)  Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  software, program
 * 2) * 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?
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 2 April 2010, gsm modul / telefon, Group cz.comp.linux:
 * ma nekdo nejake zkusenosti s takovym zarizenim ci softem kterym to ovladat?

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  soft porn
 * 2)  software
 * 3)  a piece of software

Adjective

 * 1) softcore pornography

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  (tone etc.; temporary (computing))

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) software

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  nice and/or laid-back; chill