<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.</li><li>Synonyms: malleable, plastic, pliable.</li><li>relatively deficient in hardness, as metal or wood.</li><li>smooth and agreeable to the touch; not rough or coarse: a soft fabric; soft skin.</li><li>producing agreeable sensations; pleasant or comfortable: soft slumber.</li><li>low or subdued in sound; gentle and melodious: soft music; a soft voice.</li><li>Synonyms: sweet, dulcet, mellifluous.</li><li>not harsh or unpleasant to the eye; not glaring: soft light; a soft color.</li><li>not hard or sharp: soft outlines.</li><li>gentle or mild: soft breezes.</li><li>genial or balmy, as climate or air.</li><li>gentle, mild, warm-hearted, or compassionate: a soft, grandmotherly woman.</li><li>Synonyms: sympathetic, tender.</li><li>smooth, soothing, or ingratiating: soft words.</li><li>not harsh or severe, as a penalty or demand.</li><li>responsive or sympathetic to the feelings, emotions, needs, etc., of others; tender-hearted.</li><li>sentimental or flowery, as language: soft, meaningless talk.</li><li>not strong or robust; delicate; incapable of great endurance or exertion: He was too soft for the Marines.</li><li>Synonyms: feeble, weak.</li><li>Informal: easy; involving little effort; not difficult, laborious, trying, or severe: a soft job.</li><li>Informal: easily influenced or swayed; easily imposed upon; impressionable.</li><li>Synonyms: submissive, irresolute, compliant.</li><li>lenient, permissive, or conciliatory, especially regarding something that is conceived of as dangerous or threatening: to be soft on Communism.</li><li>(of water) relatively free from mineral salts that interfere with the action of soap.</li><li>(of paper money or a monetary system) not supported by sufficient gold reserves or not easily convertible into a foreign currency.</li><li>(of a market, market condition, or prices) declining in value, volume, profitability, etc.; weak: a soft tourist season.</li><li>(of money) plentiful or available at low interest rates or on easy terms: a soft loan.</li><li>soft-core.</li><li>(Metallurgy) (of a metal) easily magnetized and demagnetized.</li><li>(of solder) fusing readily.</li><li>(of a metal or alloy) fully annealed, so as to provide minimum mechanical hardness.</li><li>(Photography) (of a photographic image) having delicate gradations of tone.</li><li>(of a focus) lacking in sharpness.</li><li>(of a lens) unable to be focused sharply.</li><li>(Phonetics) (of consonants) lenis, especially lenis and voiced.</li><li>(of c and g) pronounced as in cent and gem.</li><li>(of consonants in Slavic languages) palatalized.</li><li>(Military) (of a missile-launching base) aboveground and relatively unprotected from enemy attack.</li><li>(Aerospace) (of a landing of a space vehicle) gentle; not harmful to the vehicle or its contents: a soft landing on the moon.</li><li>(Physics) (of a beam of particles or electromagnetic radiation) having relatively low energy: soft x-rays.</li><li>(of a delegate, voter, etc.) not committed to any one candidate.</li><li>Informal: foolish or stupid: soft in the head.</li><li>(of a detergent) readily biodegradable.</li><li>(Baseball) lacking power or speed: a soft infield hit; a soft breaking pitch.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something that is soft or yielding; the soft part.</li><li>softness.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>in a soft manner.</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection</strong></p><ul><li>Archaic: be quiet! hush! not so fast! stop!</li></ul>