soft

(Englisch)

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.

Gegenteil von

hard

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/sɒft/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: softe

Geerbt von Altenglisch: sōfte

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: sêft

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: zacht

Verwandt mit Deutsch: sanft

Verwandt mit Altnordisch: 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.

Konzepte

weich

sanft

zart

mild

leicht

leise

schwammig

artig

süß

elastisch

lieblich

reizend

entzückend

geschmeidig

lind

schlaff

schwabbelig

weichlich

wohltuend

flexibel

freundlich

gelinde

flaccidus

glatt

hämmerbar

heikel

hold

kitzlig

köstlich

kraftlos

lecker

lehmig

demütig

delikat

leutselig

liebenswürtig

dehnbar

sacht

locker

matt

mehlig

charmant

nachgebend

nachgiebig

nett

alkoholfrei

ruhig

biegsam

flauschig

schlapp

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

mou

suave

doux

zacht

soffice

blando

morbido

tendre

suau

miękki

molle

suave

mole

macio

molle

Sätze

A good conscience is a soft pillow .

Ein gutes Gewissen ist ein weiches Kissen.