soft

Signification (Anglais)

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. Voiceless.
13. Palatalized.
14. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
15. Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
16. (colloquial) Foolish.
17. 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)
18. Physically or emotionally weak.
19. Effeminate.
20. Agreeable to the senses.
21. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
22. Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
23. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
24. Emulated with software; not physically real.
25. Not likely to cause addiction.
26. Not containing alcohol.
27. Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
28. Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
29. Softcore.
30. Of paper: unsized.
31. Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
32. Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
33. Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.

Intj

Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Noun

1. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
2. Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)
3. (colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
4. A piece of software.

Adv

Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Concepts

mou

doux

tendre

molle

moelleux

douce

devenir mou

gentil

délicat

souple

faible

léger

suave

sucré

flasque

fin

mœlleux

fertile

facile

mouillé

non alcolisé

flaccide

chapeau mou

logiciel

flexible

élastique

douillet

malléable

soyeux

farineux

être branlant

mûr

indolent

vaurien

être

amollir

lâche

mal fixé

de couleur foncée

non comestible

languissant

sensible

aisément

piano

non alcoolisé

sans alcool

indulgent

laxiste

bas

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɒft/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

A good conscience is a soft pillow .

Une bonne conscience est un oreiller doux.