sanft

Meaning

gentle

soft

quiet

mild

gently

calm

softly

tender

bland

docile

restful

tranquil

peaceful

mildly

sweet

leisurely

quiescent

still

delicate

placid

suave

balmy

blandly

placidly

limp

meek

affable

alluring

charming

disarming

fair

friendly

good

kind

kindly

lovely

nice

winsome

blunt

comfortable

convenient

cushy

easy

relieved

rest

fragile

sensitive

quietly

secretly

dolce

peaceable

glassiness

smoothness

frail

unskilled

weak

obedient

subdued

mild-mannered

harmonious

blearily

drizzling

weakly

smooth

smoothly

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/zanft/

From Middle High German semfte, senfte, sanfte, from Old High German semfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”). Doublet of sacht. Cognate with English soft.