Significado (English)
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- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Quiet.
- Gentle.
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Not bright or intense.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Palatalized.
- (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- (colloquial) Foolish.
- 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)
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Effeminate.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- Softcore.
- Of paper: unsized.
- Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
- Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
- Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
Synonyms
not hard
become soft
be tender
very soft
easily hurt
full-flavoured
gentle wind
spruce gum
adj i & 3 damp
be exquisite
warm and fluffy
be easy
cushioney
pleasing to the ear
be fragile
light complexion
not firm
not loud
not compact
designating a kind of gold
make soft
low-toned
off-and-on
non-spirituous
soft-skinned
soft tone
shaky be
spongy ground
uncrisp
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/sɒft/
Etimoloxía (English)
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.
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