soft

  1. Adjective.  Giving way under pressure.
  2. Adjective.  (context, of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible.
  3. Adjective.  Gentle.
  4. Adjective.  Requiring little or no effort, easy.
  5. Adjective.  Not bright or intense.
  6. Adjective.  (context, of a road intersection) Having an acute angle.
  7. Adjective.  (context, of a sound) Quiet.
  8. Adjective.  (linguistics) voiced, sonant.
  9. Adjective.  (linguistics) (rare) voiceless.
  10. Adjective.  (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
  11. Adjective.  (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
  12. Adjective.  (context, of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
  13. Adjective.  (context, Northern England) Foolish.
  14. 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).
  15. Adjective.  (context, of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.

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