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How to pronounce soft
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What does soft mean?
adjEasily giving way under pressure.
“My head sank easily into the soft pillow.”
Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
“soft silk; a soft skin”
Quiet.
“I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.”
intjBe quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
“Soft you; a word or two before you goe: / I haue done the State ſome ſeruice, and they know’t: / No more of that.”
nounA soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
“It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.”
A soft drink.
A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
advSoftly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
“A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde”
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