Definition: not brilliant or glaring
Usage: the moon cast soft shadows; soft pastel colors; subdued lighting
Similar words: dull
Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light
Usage: a dull glow; dull silver badly in need of a polish; a dull sky
Definition: mild and pleasant
Usage: balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze
Synonyms: easygoing, cushy, soft
Definition: not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
Usage: what a cushy job!; the easygoing life of a parttime consultant; a soft job
Similar words: easy
Definition: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
Usage: an easy job; an easy problem; an easy victory; the house is easy to heat; satisfied with easy answers; took the easy way out of his dilemma
Synonyms: soft
Definition: willing to negotiate and compromise
Similar words: conciliative, conciliatory
Definition: intended to placate
Usage: spoke in a conciliating tone; a conciliatory visit
Synonyms: flabby, flaccid, soft
Definition: out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
Usage: he was too soft for the army; flabby around the middle; flaccid cheeks
Similar words: unfit
Definition: not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition
Usage: fat and very unfit; certified as unfit for army service; drunk and unfit for service
Synonyms: soft
Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
Similar words: fleecy, brushed, napped
Definition: (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
Usage: a dress of brushed cotton; a fleecy lining; napped fabrics
Similar words: cheeselike
Definition: having the consistency of cheese
Similar words: compressible, squeezable
Definition: capable of being easily compressed
Similar words: cottony
Definition: resembling cotton; as soft as cotton
Similar words: cushioned, cushiony, padded
Definition: softened by the addition of cushions or padding
Similar words: emollient, demulcent, softening, salving
Definition: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
Similar words: downlike, downy, flossy, fluffy
Definition: like down or as soft as down
Similar words: flaccid
Definition: drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness
Usage: a flaccid penis
Similar words: flocculent, woolly, wooly
Definition: having a fluffy character or appearance
Similar words: yielding
Definition: lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
Usage: a deep yielding layer of foam rubber
Similar words: mushy
Definition: having the consistency of mush
Similar words: overstuffed
Definition: upholstered thickly and deeply
Usage: an overstuffed sofa
Similar words: semisoft, softish
Definition: somewhat soft
Similar words: spongelike, spongy, squashy, squishy
Definition: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
Usage: spongy bread
Similar words: velvet, velvety
Definition: resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
Synonyms: soft
Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory
Usage: he was soft on his children
Similar words: mellow
Definition: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
Usage: mellow wisdom; the peace of mellow age
Synonyms: soft
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
Similar words: sibilant, spirant, continuant, strident, fricative
Definition: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
Similar words: palatal, palatalised, palatalized
Definition: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
Definition: having little impact
Usage: an easy pat on the shoulder; gentle rain; a gentle breeze; a soft (or light) tapping at the window
Similar words: light
Definition: of little intensity or power or force
Usage: the light touch of her fingers; a light breeze
Synonyms: soft
Definition: (of sound) relatively low in volume
Usage: soft voices; soft music
Similar words: softened, dull, muffled, muted
Definition: being or made softer or less loud or clear
Usage: the dull boom of distant breaking waves; muffled drums; the muffled noises of the street; muted trumpets
Similar words: euphonious
Definition: (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident
Usage: her euphonious Southern speech
Similar words: gentle
Definition: quiet and soothing
Usage: a gentle voice; a gentle nocturne
Similar words: quiet, muted, hushed, subdued
Definition: in a softened tone
Usage: hushed voices; muted trumpets; a subdued whisper; a quiet reprimand
Definition: (of a voice) faint
Usage: a little voice; a still small voice
Definition: very low in volume
Usage: a low murmur; the low-toned murmur of the surf
Similar words: susurrant, whispering, murmuring
Definition: making a low continuous indistinct sound
Usage: like murmuring waves; susurrant voices
Similar words: murmurous, susurrous, rustling, soughing
Definition: characterized by soft sounds
Usage: a murmurous brook; a soughing wind in the pines; a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines- R.P.Warren
Similar words: soft-footed
Definition: sound of quiet gentle steps
Similar words: soft-spoken
Definition: having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh
Usage: she was always soft-spoken
Definition: used chiefly as a direction or description in music
Usage: the piano passages in the composition
Similar words: pianissimo
Definition: chiefly a direction or description in music; very soft
Similar words: pianissimo assai
Definition: chiefly a direction or description in music; very soft
Definition: soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
Usage: a gentle reprimand; a vein of gentle irony; poked gentle fun at him
Similar words: mild
Definition: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
Usage: a mild winter storm; a mild fever; fortunately the pain was mild; a mild rebuke; mild criticism
Synonyms: indulgent, soft, lenient
Definition: tolerant or lenient
Usage: indulgent parents risk spoiling their children; too soft on the children; they are soft on crime
Similar words: permissive
Definition: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
Usage: direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive; permissive parents
Synonyms: soft
Definition: using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
Usage: soft data; the soft sciences
Similar words: qualitative
Definition: involving distinctions based on qualities
Usage: qualitative change; qualitative data; qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture
Definition: easily hurt
Usage: soft hands; a baby's delicate skin
Synonyms: soft
Definition: (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
Usage: the market for computers is soft
Similar words: falling
Definition: becoming lower or less in degree or value
Usage: a falling market; falling incomes