soft

(Anglès)

Adj

1. Easily giving way under pressure.
2. Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
3. Quiet.
4. Gentle.
5. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
6. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
7. Weak in character; impressible.
8. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
9. Not bright or intense.
10. Having a slight angle from straight.
11. Voiced; sonant; lenis.
12. (rare) Voiceless.
13. Palatalized.
14. (slang) Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
15. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
16. Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
17. (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
18. 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)
19. Physically or emotionally weak.
20. (UK) Effeminate.
21. Agreeable to the senses.
22. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
23. Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
24. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
25. Emulated with software; not physically real.
26. Not likely to cause addiction.
27. Not containing alcohol.
28. Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
29. Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
30. Softcore
31. Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
32. Of paper: unsized.
33. Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
34. Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
35. Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
36. (idiomatic, informal) Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone.

Intj

Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Noun

1. (archaic, countable) A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
2. (countable, uncountable) A soft drink.
3. (countable) A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
4. (colloquial, countable) A soft sound or part of a sound.
5. (countable, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
6. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Banknotes.

Adv

Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Oposat a

hard

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sɒft/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: softe

Heretat de anglès antic: sōfte

Cognat amb frisó occidental: sêft

Cognat amb neerlandès: zacht

Cognat amb alemany: sanft

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: sœmr

In summary

From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.

Conceptes

suau

dolç

tou

bla

moll

lleuger

delicat

plàstic

feble

apacible

afable

flonjo

amable

encisador

exquisit

fi fina

flonho

plàcid

tendre

mòrbid

Sinònims

tender

gentle

delicate

mild

weak

smooth

fine

sweet

quiet

easy

fluffy

limp

pliable

kind

light

flabby

faint

flexible

silky

yielding

downy

subdued

loose

lenient

pliant

calm

flaccid

ripe

balmy

low

bland

polite

lithe

supple

spongy

nice

piano

unctuous

fresh

mellow

affectionate

young

affable

kindly

palatalized

pleasant

genial

benign

cushy

crumbly

Frases

A good conscience is a soft pillow .