Collins English-English Dictionary

soft [sɒft]

1. 1. adj easy to dent, work, or cut without shattering; malleable

2. 2. adj not hard; giving little or no resistance to pressure or weight

3. 3. adj fine, light, smooth, or fluffy to the touch

4. 4. adj gentle; tranquil

5. 5. adj (of music, sounds, etc) low and pleasing

6. 6. adj (of light, colour, etc) not excessively bright or harsh

7. 7. adj (of a breeze, climate, etc) temperate, mild, or pleasant

8. 8. adj [dialect] drizzly or rainy

   a soft day

   the weather has turned soft

9. 9. adj slightly blurred; not sharply outlined

   soft focus

10. 10. adj (of a diet) consisting of easily digestible foods

11. 11. adj kind or lenient, often excessively so

12. 12. adj easy to influence or impose upon

13. 13. adj prepared to compromise; not doctrinaire

    the soft left

14. 14. adj [informal] feeble or silly; simple (often in the phrase soft in the head)

15. 15. adj unable to endure hardship, esp through too much pampering

16. 16. adj physically out of condition; flabby

    soft muscles

17. 17. adj loving; tender

    soft words

18. 18. adj [informal] requiring little exertion; easy

    a soft job

19. 19. adj [chem] (of water) relatively free of mineral salts and therefore easily able to make soap lather

20. 20. adj (of a drug such as cannabis) nonaddictive or only mildly addictive - Compare hard

21. 21. adj (of news coverage) concentrating on trivial stories or those with human interest

22. 22. adj

23. 23. adj an older word for lenis

24. 24. adj [phonetics] (not in technical usage) denoting the consonants c and g in English when they are pronounced as palatal or alveolar fricatives or affricates (s, ʤ, $, [dh], t$) before e and i, rather than as velar stops (k, g)

25. 25. adj (in the Slavonic languages) palatalized before a front vowel or a special character (soft sign) written as

26. 26. adj

27. 27. adj unprotected against attack

    a soft target

28. 28. adj [military] unarmoured, esp as applied to a truck by comparison with a tank

29. 29. adj [finance] [chiefly US] (of prices, a market, etc) unstable and tending to decline

30. 30. adj (of a currency) in relatively little demand, esp because of a weak balance of payments situation

31. 31. adj (of radiation, such as X-rays and ultraviolet radiation) having low energy and not capable of deep penetration of materials

32. 32. adj [physics] (of valves or tubes) only partially evacuated

33. 33. adj related to the performance of non-specific, undefinable tasks

    soft skills such as customer services and office support

34. 34. adv in a soft manner

    to speak soft

35. 35. n a soft object, part, or piece

36. 36. n See softie

37. 37. interj [informal] [archaic] quiet!

38. 38. interj wait!

39. 39. interj [Etymology] Old English softe; related to Old Saxon safti, Old High German semfti gentle