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Definition: Soft |
SoftAdjective1. Lacking in hardness relatively or comparatively. 2. Metaphorically soft; "my father is a soft touch"; "soft light"; "a soft rain"; "a soft Southern drawl"; "soft brown eyes"; "a soft glance". 3. Of sound; relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"; ". 4. Easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin". 5. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the piano passages in the composition". 6. Used of beverages; not containing alcohol; "nonalcoholic beverages"; "soft drinks". 7. Of speech sounds; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh'). 8. Tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children". 9. Having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window". 10. : (informal) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "a soft job". Adverb1. (informal) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; "just wanted to take it easy" (`soft' is nonstandard). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | The paper grades are usually classified by each maker according to his own ideas. . . No. 1: soft. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Soft He's a soft - half a fool. The word originally meant effeminate, unmanly; hence soft in brains, silly, etc., "soft in courage." (3 Henry VI., ii. 2.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Roentgen tube or rectifier tube: a tube with a relatively poor vacuum. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Bituminous as opposed to anthracite coal. b. In mineralogy, usually refers to minerals readily scratched by a needle or knife blade c. Tender, friable, or full of slips and joints. d. As applied to a glass or glaze, refers to a low softening temperature; such a glass or glaze, when cold, is also likely to be relatively soft;i.e., of lower than average hardness, in the normal sense. (references) |
Physics | Radiation: radiation of low penetration. (the antithesis of hard). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SOFT | Danish | Satellitbaseret åben facilitet for afprøvning | Computing |
SOFT | English | Symposium on Fusion Technology | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
SOFT | French | Dispositif expérimental commun par satellite | Computing |
SOFT | Italian | Sistema libero via satellite destinato alle prove | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SoftSynonyms: cushy (adj), delicate (adj), gentle (adj), indulgent (adj), lax (adj), lenient (adj), nonalcoholic (adj), piano (adj), easy (adv). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: pse (food & agriculture). |
| Antonyms: alcoholic (adj), forte (adj), hard (adj), loud (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. |
Credulity | Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding; (believing). |
Imbecility Folly | Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous. |
Lenity | Adjective: lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent, easy-going; clement; (compassionate); forbearing; long-suffering. |
Marsh | Adjective: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny. |
Moderation | Unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac. |
Pity | Merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian; (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; Verb: weak. |
Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious. |
Smoothness | Adjective: smooth; polished; Verb: leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; (flat); sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly; (feathery). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soft |
| English words defined with "soft": creeping soft grass ♦ soft corn, Soft dorsal, Soft patch, soft pretzel, soft roll, soft rush, soft soap, soft solder, soft spot, soft wheat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "soft": Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue ♦ Soft as Soap, soft boot, soft inclusion, soft link, soft skin, soft tissue, Soft Tissue Injuries, Soft Words Butter no Parsnips. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "soft": Softling. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Soft" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (gravy, juice). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I tell any girl I'm going out with to assume that all plans are soft until she receives confirmation 30 minutes beforehand (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) Soft. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) Here everything is soft and smooth (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) Soft stuff (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) Soft, strong, and disposable (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) | |
Lyrics | But soft and sweet and dreamin' (Spanish Harlem; performing artist: Aretha Franklin) I can feel the soft silk of your blouse (TUNNEL OF LOVE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) There you are breathin' soft on my skin, yeah (Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad; performing artist: Def Leppard) Out of the stilness, soft spoken words (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis) With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse (This Kiss; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Clever | Soft rock (references; author: unknown) A good conscience is a soft pillow. (references; author: unknown) Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. (references; author: unknown) Lord, make my words soft and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Big Soft Nelly Mrs. Mouse (1971) Soft Pad (1970) Mr. Soft Touch (1949) Soft Shoulders (1942) A Soft Tenderfoot (1917) | |
Song Titles | Tainted Love (performing artist: Soft Cell) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows a clear plastic container (dish) filled with strawberry frozen yogurt, (looks like it came out of a soft ice cream dispenser, swirled). Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Pictured is soft tissue sarcoma photographed through an electron microscope. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D. Credit: CDC. |  | This bacterium causes urinary tract infections, respiratory system infections, dermatitis, soft tissue infections, bacteremia and a variety of systemic infections, particularly in cancer and AIDS patients who are immunosuppressed. Credit: CDC. |
 | On way to Station Stump Too much soft snow. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A series of caves and natural bridges cut through soft rock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Mangrove root with soft coral (reddish) attached and seagrass below. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Oyster shells are recycled by planting them on soft muddy bottom. This gives a firm surface for the attachment of young oysters and helps provide larger crops. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Mud Snail, Batillaria attramentaria, is abundant on soft mud or high intertidal zones of quiet bays and estuaries from Boundary Bay, British Columbia, to Elkhorn Slough, California . The shell is long, slender, and about 35mm long. It was introduced from Japan to the U.S. and is common where Japanese oysters were planted. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Spatulate-leaved sundew - Drosera intermedia; three-square rush - Scirpus americanus; soft rush - Juncus effusus. Along the Mashpee Trail at South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Soft Yellow" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Rose garden ." | "Soft Grass" by Sencer Sarp Commentary: "----." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Arpeggiated synthesizer chords in a soft ballad style. | | A soft and slow heart beat. |
| A dominant seventh chord played on a soft Rhodes-sounding electric piano. | | A soft, high note plucked on a banjo. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you will have to eat them. |
Herodotus | In soft regions are born soft men. |
Richter | Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. |
Sappho | Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite. |
Sir Edwin Arnold | Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. |
Thomas Fuller | Soft words are hard arguments. |
Thomas Otway | Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. |
William Shakespeare | Soft pity enters an iron gate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The voice was soft and gentle |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | " "That's it," said Zaphod with the sort of grin that would get most people locked away in a room with soft walls. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His soft, wavering, disjointed, diseased, deformed ideas, attached themselves to Enjolras as to a backbone |
Alexander's Feast | John Dryden | Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He would pass by them calmly waiting for a sudden movement of his own will or a sudden call to his sinloving soul from their soft perfumed flesh |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Soft! he wakes |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The dust coated their legs to the knee, their feet were pale and soft with sweat |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use a soft hair brush. (references) | |
Wound or soft tissue infections. (references) | ||
Wearing soft, non-irritating fabrics. (references) | ||
Business | Financing through soft loan terms is required for many, if not most, Indonesian government projects. (references) | |
In a typical business meeting, the guest may be offered tea, coffee or a soft drink when he/she arrives. (references) | ||
The products that spent the most for advertising were shampoo, laundry detergents, soft drinks, soap, beer, motorbikes and toothpaste. (references) | ||
Economic History | Nicaragua | PEPSI-COLA, soft drink manufacturer. (references) |
Gambia, The | Other manufacturing activities include soap, soft drinks, and clothing. (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | A U.S. soft drink bottling plant in Malabo has lain dormant for over a decade now. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | Soft credits are at times provided to small enterprises for specific projects. (references) |
NICARAGUA | Import duties on so-called "fiscal" goods (e.g., tobacco, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages) are particularly high. (references) | |
NICARAGUA | Taxes on chicken products, mineral water, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, cigars, and cigarettes were also increased. (references) | |
Trade | Nicaragua | The IEC on soft drinks will decrease by 3 percentage points annually until it reaches 9 percent. (references) |
Vietnam | Sometimes these are actually soft loan programs designed to support a particular country's exporters. (references) | |
Indonesia | Ex-Im does not initiate soft loan offers without evidence of a competitor offer already having been made. (references) | |
Travel | Azerbaijan | Beer, soft drinks and hard alcohol are widely sold. (references) |
Nepal | Locally bottled soft drinks, club soda, and beer are generally safe. (references) | |
Oman | Coffee, tea, or soft drinks will probably be offered (except during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan) and should be accepted. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Soft money was invented by creative souls as a way around the current campaign finance structure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Soft" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Soft" is used about 6,139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.98% | 6,138 | 1,587 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "soft". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Julitta | N/A | N/A | Soft and tender hair |
| Julia | N/A | Biblical | Soft and tender hair |
| Yuliya | N/A | Bulgarian | Soft and tender hair |
| Jules | N/A | English | Soft and tender hair |
| Julie | N/A | English | Soft and tender hair |
| Julie | N/A | French | Soft and tender hair |
| Júlia | N/A | Hungarian | Soft and tender hair |
| Juli | N/A | Hungarian | Soft and tender hair |
| Juliska | N/A | Hungarian | Soft and tender hair |
| Iúile | N/A | Irish | Soft and tender hair |
| Iulia | N/A | Romanian | Soft and tender hair |
| Yuliya | N/A | Russian | Soft and tender hair |
| Julija | N/A | Slovene | Soft and tender hair |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | AB Soft | Japan | Asahi Soft Drinks Co., Ltd. |
| USA | Multi Soft, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "soft": be a soft touch ♦ be soft ♦ be soft on ♦ be soft to the touch ♦ become soft ♦ become soft and sticky ♦ brown soft scale ♦ cooked until soft ♦ creeping soft grass ♦ Encephaloid Medullary or Soft cancer ♦ feel soft ♦ get soft ♦ go soft ♦ he is going soft in the head ♦ make a soft landing ♦ make soft ♦ rather soft ♦ soft air temper ♦ soft bark ♦ soft bed ♦ soft boiled ♦ soft boiled egg ♦ soft boot ♦ soft briCk ♦ soft cancer ♦ soft chancre ♦ soft chaparral ♦ soft cheese ♦ soft chess ♦ soft clam ♦ soft coal ♦ soft color ♦ soft colour ♦ soft copy ♦ soft corn ♦ soft crab ♦ soft currency ♦ soft diet ♦ soft distemper ♦ soft dorsal ♦ soft drink ♦ soft drinks ♦ soft drug ♦ soft drugs ♦ soft feather ♦ soft flag ♦ soft fruit ♦ soft fruits ♦ soft furnishings ♦ soft glass ♦ soft goods ♦ soft grass ♦ soft hail ♦ soft hair ♦ soft heart ♦ soft hues ♦ soft ice cream ♦ soft in the head ♦ soft job ♦ soft landing ♦ soft law ♦ soft leather ♦ soft line ♦ soft link ♦ soft mattress ♦ soft missile base ♦ soft money ♦ soft music ♦ soft mute ♦ soft on ♦ soft option ♦ soft palate ♦ soft parts ♦ soft patch ♦ soft pear ♦ soft pedal ♦ soft porn ♦ soft pretzel ♦ soft rain ♦ soft ray ♦ soft rays ♦ soft roe ♦ soft roll ♦ soft rot ♦ soft rush ♦ soft sawder ♦ soft scale ♦ soft science ♦ soft scroll ♦ soft sell ♦ soft sex ♦ Soft Shell ♦ soft shield fern ♦ soft shoulder ♦ soft shower ♦ soft skills ♦ soft slumber ♦ soft snap ♦ soft soap ♦ soft solder ♦ soft spoken. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "soft": soft-back, soft-back book, soft-backed, soft-ball, soft-balls, soft-bite, soft-blue, soft-bodied, soft-boiled, soft-bottomed, soft-bound book, soft-brained, soft-bristled, soft-but-powerful, soft-cast steel, soft-centre, soft-centred, soft-class, soft-coated wheaten terrier, soft-coloured, soft-commission, soft-commissions, soft-conventionalist, soft-core, soft-couple, soft-cover, soft-cover book, soft-curd, soft-curled, soft-currency, soft-cushioned, soft-drawling, soft-drink, soft-drinks, soft-eating, soft-edged, soft-eyed, soft-face, soft-faced, soft-featured, Soft-finned, soft-finned fish, soft-focus, soft-focused, soft-focusing, soft-font, soft-footed, soft-footing, soft-furred, soft-glowing, soft-goods, soft-green, soft-grip, soft-ground, soft-grounded, soft-gutted, soft-hard, soft-hat, soft-head, Soft-headed, Soft-hearted, Soft-heartedness, soft-hued, soft-iced, soft-iron, soft-jowled, soft-land, soft-landers, soft-landing, Soft-law, soft-leather, soft-leaved, soft-left, soft-line, soft-liner, soft-lipped, soft-loan, soft-look, soft-looking, soft-mindedness, soft-mode, soft-money, soft-nose, soft-nosed, soft-nosed bullets, soft-nothings, soft-occult, soft-on, soft-packed, soft-pedal, soft-pedalled, soft-peddling, soft-plumaged, soft-porn, soft-porn-tabloid, soft-pressed, soft-rockers, soft-seated, soft-seeming, soft-sell, soft-selling, soft-serve, soft-set, Soft-shell, soft-shell clam, soft-shell crab, Soft-shell tortoise, Soft-shelled, soft-shelled crab, Soft-shelled crabs, soft-shelled turtle, soft-shoe, soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffle, soft-shoed, soft-shoulder, soft-shouldered, soft-sided, soft-skills, soft-skinned, soft-soap, soft-soaped, soft-soaping, soft-sold, soft-solder, soft-soled, soft-sox, soft-speaking, soft-spiked, soft-spoken, soft-spokenness, soft-spot, soft-spots, soft-stick, Soft-switch, Soft-tack, soft-talk, soft-talked, soft-textured, soft-tinted, soft-tissue, soft-toned, soft-top, soft-tops, soft-to-the-touch, soft-underbelly, soft-voiced, soft-ware, soft-ware-failure, soft-water, soft-witted, soft-wood. | |
Ending with "soft": ultra-soft. | |
Containing "soft": micro-soft-compatible. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
soft core porn | 7,851 | soft starter | 121 |
soft core | 2,058 | soft contact lens | 120 |
ubi soft | 1,255 | free soft core | 118 |
air soft gun | 1,199 | skin so soft | 114 |
soft | 909 | soft core teen | 112 |
soft porn | 752 | soft coated wheaton terrier | 110 |
angeliques soft lip | 615 | soft top | 108 |
soft air | 450 | soft spot shoes | 107 |
soft drink | 283 | soft paw | 99 |
soft tit | 276 | soft sex | 97 |
people soft | 258 | soft rock | 97 |
soft coated wheaten terrier | 250 | pool soft | 94 |
soft tits.com | 180 | soft toy | 87 |
jeep soft top | 175 | soft water | 84 |
soft cell | 175 | soft pretzels | 82 |
soft tub | 149 | square soft | 82 |
lava soft | 140 | soft core sex | 80 |
soft cooler | 128 | soft serve ice cream machine | 76 |
ice soft | 121 | soft shell crabs | 75 |
soft surroundings | 121 | bronco soft top | 73 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "soft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | soet (gentle, sweet, tender), sag, lieflik (charming, gentle, lovely, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Albanian | që shkon (congruent, congruous, good tempered, pleasant), i paqëndrueshëm (changeable, cranky, fickle, fluent, fluid, inconsequential, inconstant, infirm, labile, mutable, non-persistent, protean, rocky, tipsy, tottering, unequable, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, waggly, wayward), i pallatalizuar, i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, sweet, sympathetic), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, sugary, sweet, tender), fice, butë (flabbily, indulgent, lightly, piano, smooth), ëmbël (gentle, smooth, sweet, sweetly, tender). (various references) | |
Arabic | لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), رخيم (euphonic, liquid, mellow, melodious, singsong, tuneful), الأحمق (blockhead, goof, idiot, numskull, oaf, stupid, zany), خافت (dim, faint, low, subdued), ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), طري (droopy, fresh, mellow, mushy, supple), عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, intimate, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, passionate, rhapsodic, romantic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soulful), عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), رخو (flabby, flaccid, lax, limp, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish), لدن (ductile, elastic, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliant, supple, yielding), سهل (easy, smooth, to make easy), لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), ناعم الملمس (greasy), هين (cheap, cushy, easy, effortless, facile, handy, light, royal), معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, steady, straight, temperate, upright), متسامح (broad minded, fond, forbearing, forgiving, indulgent, large minded, lenient, liberal, merciful, mild, permissive, tolerant), منخفض (depressed, depression, fading, faint, low), سهل (ease, ease off, easy, even, expedite, facilitate, favor, favour, flat, frail, get-at-able, plain, quite simple, simple, slick, smooth). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | незащитен (exposed, indefensible, obvious, open, uncovered, undefended, unguarded, unsheltered, unshielded), дъждовен (juicy, moist, pluvial, rain, rainy, soppy, wet), палатален (palatal), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), безалкохолен (non-alcoholic), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), леко (cheap, easy, gently, light, lightly), лековерен (credulous, dupable, gullible, simple, simple minded, unseeing), лековерен човек (dupe, pigeon, softy), лесен (easy, effortless, facile, liveable, potty, ready, ready made, runaway, simple, smooth, snap), женствен (effeminate, emasculate, girlish, ladylike, pansy, sissy, womanish), звучен (deep-mouthed, full, liquid, melodious, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, tuneful, vibrant, vocal, voiced, voiceful), деликатен (considerate, delicate, fastidious, fine, fragile, nice, pernickety, prickly, slender, slippery, slippy, tender, thoughtful, ticklish), нежен (affectionate, dainty, delicate, dovelike, downy, fatherly, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melodious, melting, slender, sweet, tender, womanly), съчувствен (commiserative, compassionate, feeling, responsive, sympathetic, understanding), неконтрастен, неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soppy, spiritless, untight), влажен (damp, dank, humid, juicy, madid, moist, plashy, raw, soggy, sticky, watery, wet), гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), ковък (ductile, forgeable, malleable, pliable, tractable), тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), тихо (hist, hush, inwardly, low, mum, piano, quiet, quietly, silently, sotto voce, soundlessly, stilly), спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, kinky, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, potty, queer, touched, up the pole, wacky, zany), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding). (various references) | |
Catalan | dolç (gentle, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Chinese | 隤 (americium, fall in ruins), 胹 (overcooked), 软, 輕 (easy, gentle, hydrogen, light), 軟 (flexible), 荏 (Perilla ocimoides), 綿 (cotton, downy, incessant), 爛 (overcooked, rotten), 柔軟 , 柔 , 嫩 (tender), 和 (and, cap, harmony, mix together, peace, respond in singing, to blend, together with, union, warm, with). (various references) | |
Czech | mìkký (balmy, fresh, gentle, mellow, mild, silky, squashy, tender), dobrý (all right, fair, glad, good, sensible, strong, useful), hebký (creamy, downy, furry, smooth), hedvábný (Flossy, froufrou, sericeous, silk, silken, silky), hladký (even, facile, glassy, round, smooth, straight, unlined, unruffled), jemný (bland, dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, graceful, gracious, light, milky, nice, silken, silky, suave, subtle, superfine, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, wispy), kujný (ductile, malleable, tractable), blátivý (miry, muddy, splashy), libozvuèný, tlumený (quiet, subdued), mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, tame, temperate, unruffled), nìžný (affectionate, fond, tender), nekontrastní, ochablý (flabby), pastelový (pastel), rozmìklý (soppy, squashy), tavený (processed), laskavý (affable, amiable, benevolent, benign, benignant, caring, charitable, decent, friendly, gentle, good, gracious, kind, kindly, neighborly, obliging, open-hearted). (various references) | |
Danish | sød (beloved, dear, expensive, gentle, lovely, sweet, tender, valuable), blød (flaccid, supple). (various references) | |
Dutch | zoet (affable, candy, friendly, gentle, good-natured, kind, sweet, tender), zacht (gentle, mild, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mola, dolĉa (gentle, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Faeroese | søtur (gentle, sweet, tender), mildur (gentle, mild, serene, sweet, tender, untroubled), bleytur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Meek, Mellow, Merciful, Mild, Open, Tenderminded), ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Suave), نیم بند, نازک (Attenuate, Eggshell, Ethereal, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Slim, Spare, Tenuous), نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), لطیف (Benign, Delicate, Fine, Gaseous, Gentle, Gossamer, Rare, Rosewater, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous, Volatile), گوارا (Digestible, Digestive, Salubrious, Tasty), سبک (Buoyant, Gossamer, Levigate, Levity, Mode, Order, Phraseology, Portable, Structure, Style, Thin, Volatile), عسلی (Stool), شیرین (Amiable, Luscious, Sugary, Sweet). (various references) | |
Finnish | pehmeä (tender). (various references) | |
French | mou (soggy), doux, moelleux. (various references) | |
Frisian | swiet (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, lovely, nice, pleasant, sweet, tender), sêft, mjitsk (gentle, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
German | weich (crumby, limp, malleable, mellow, pillowy, smooth, smoothly, soft boiled, soft-hearted, softly, spongy, springy, squashy, tender), weichlich (effeminate, mollycoddle, mushy, softish, weak, wet), sanft (bland, blandly, calm, caressing, delicate, gentle, gently, kindly, meek, meekly, mellow, mild, mildly, peaceful, placidly, quiet, silken, smooth, smoothly, softly, suave, undulating), leise (faint, gentle, light, lightly, low, quiet, quietly, silently, slight, sneaking, softly, sotto voce, subtle). (various references) | |
Greek | μαλακόσ (compliant, crumby, malleable, meek, mellow, mild, quaggy, smooth, softy, squashy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), μαλακός (gentle to, tender), απαλόσ (delicate, gentle), δορυφορικό ανοικτό σύστημα δοκιμών (satellite-based open facility for testing). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ëmbël (gentle, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עדין (as yet, dainty, delicate, elegant, fine, gentle, gracious, mild, noble, not yet, slender, still, subtle, tender, yet), חלוש (effete, exhausted, feeble, frail, infirm, weakly), חלק (blank, even, fate, flat, fraction, glace, installment, level, lot, part, partition, portion, section, share, slick, smooth), חרישי (noiseless, quiet, still), רך (dainty, flaccid, gentle, limping, mellow, tender), רפה (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, lax, limp, limping, loose, slack, weak), ניחא (convenient, gentle, granted, so be it, well), נוח (affable, calm, comfortable, convenient, cushy, easy, easygoing, fair, favourable, genial, good natured, mild, propitious, rest, snug), נעים (agreeable, likable, lovely, pleasant, sightly, sweet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | puha (downy, feathery, flossy, limp, mellow, mushy, slack, sloppy, smooth, spongy, tender), lágy (bland, mellow, milky, silken, silky, still, suave, tender). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lunak (bland, lenient), lembut (balmy, lithesome, mellow, pliable), lembek (enervate), bonyok (flabby, tainted), benyek (askew). (various references) | |
Irish | milis (gentle, sweet), bog. (various references) | |
Italian | dolce (bland, cake, dessert, fresh, gentle, Goody, honeyed, luscious, mild, pudding, smooth, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle, tuck), molle (crummy, feeble, flabby, lax, squashy, tender, tongs, weak), soffice (downy, pillowy, softly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 柔らかい ( |
