Soft Definition

sôft, sŏft

softest, softer

adjective

softest, softer

Yielding readily to pressure or weight.

A soft melon; a soft pillow.

American Heritage

Giving way easily under pressure, as a feather pillow or moist clay.

Webster's New World

Easily molded, cut, or worked.

Soft wood.

American Heritage

Easily cut, marked, shaped, or worn away, as pine wood or pure gold.

Webster's New World

Not hard for its kind; not as hard as is normal, desirable, etc.

Soft butter.

Webster's New World

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adverb

Softly; gently; quietly.

Webster's New World

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easy

noun

Something soft.

Webster's New World

interjection

Be quiet; hush.

Webster's New World

Slow up; stop.

Webster's New World

suffix

Formerly commonly used in the names of software houses.

Wiktionary

idiom

be soft on

to treat gently
to feel affectionate or amorous toward

Webster's New World

soft in the head

stupid or foolish

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Soft

Adjective

Base Form:

soft

Comparative:

softer

Superlative:

softest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Soft

be soft on
soft in the head

Origin of Soft

From Middle English softe (“soft, easy, gentle, yielding"), from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sÄ“fte (“soft, gentle, easy, comfortable"), from Proto-Germanic *samftijaz (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle"), from *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting"), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole"). Cognate with Dutch zacht (“soft"), German sanft (“soft, yielding"), Old Norse sÅ“mr (“agreeable, fitting"), Old Norse samr (“same"). More at seem, same.

From Wiktionary
Middle English pleasant, calm from Old English sōfte

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
software

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