Yielding readily to pressure or weight.

Roget 862: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.    weak-minded; infirm of purpose etc. 605; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted^†, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-livered^†, lily-livered, milk-livered^†; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say 'boo' to a goose.    dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like.    in face a lion but in heart a deer.   " unmanned; frightened etc. 860.    ... show more

Roget 822: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable^†, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying^†, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable etc. 825; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious etc. 868.    ... show more

Roget 499: unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless^†, brainless; halfbaked; having no head etc. 498; not bright etc. 498; inapprehensible^†.    weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed^†, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded^†; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed.    weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated^†, clod-pated^†, addle-pated^†, addle-brained^†; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story.    shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse^†, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt etc. 699; prosaic etc. 843; hebetudinous^†.    childish, child-like; infantine^†, infantile, babyish, babish^†; puerile, anile; simple etc. (credulous) 486; old-womanish.    fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered etc. 475.    blockish^†, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning^†, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical^†; apish; simious^†.    foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.    narrow-minded etc. 481; bigoted etc. (obstinate) 606; giddy etc. (thoughtless) 458; rash etc. 863; eccentric etc. (crazed) 503.    [Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu [Fr.]; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical^†; extravagant etc. (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless etc. 645; inexpedient etc. 647; frivolous etc. (trivial) 643.    ... show more

Roget 486: credulous, gullible; easily deceived etc. 545; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding etc. (believing) 484.    ... show more

Roget 413: harmonious, harmonical^†; in concord etc. n., in tune, in concert; unisonant^†, concentual^†, symphonizing^†, isotonic, homophonous^†, assonant; ariose^†, consonant.    measured, rhythmical, diatonic^†, chromatic, enharmonic^†.    melodious, musical; melic^†; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet, canorous^†; mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery; euphonious, euphonic, euphonical^†; symphonious; enchanting etc. (pleasure-giving) 829; fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned.    ... show more

Roget 403: silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed etc. v.; mute etc. 581.    soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible etc. (faint) 405.    ... show more

Roget 339: moist, damp; watery etc. 337; madid^†, roric^†; undried^†, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy^†, dewy; roral^†, rorid^†; roscid^†; juicy.    wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated etc. v.. swashy^†, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy etc. (marshy) 345; irriguous^†.    ... show more

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous^†, slick, velutinous^†; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate^†, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled^†; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly etc. (feathery) 256.    ... show more

Roget 345: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy^†, poachy^†, quaggy^†, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal^†; moorish, moory; fenny.    ... show more

Polish: miękki, nietwardy, niesztywny

Compassionate and kind; conciliatory.

of sound Relatively low in volume.

Polish: miękki

Easily hurt:
— Soft hands.

synonym: delicate.

Produced with vibration of the vocal cords.

synonyms: sonant, voiced.

Dutch: stemhebbend

Not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons).

used chiefly as a direction or description in music Soft; in a quiet, subdued tone.

synonym: piano.

of light Transmitted from a broad light source or reflected.

synonyms: diffuse, diffused.

of speech sounds (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh').

of a commodity or market or currency Falling or likely to fall in value.

Using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation.

Tolerant or lenient:
— Too soft on the children.
— They are soft on crime.

synonyms: indulgent, lenient.

Roget 740: lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent, easy-going; clement etc. (compassionate) 914; forbearing; long-suffering.    ... show more

Roget 174: moderate; lenient etc. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered etc. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.    unexciting, unirritating^†; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic etc. 683; sedative; antiorgastic^†, anaphrodisiac^†.    mild as mother's milk; milk and water.    ... show more

Roget 914: pitying etc. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.    merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian etc. (philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened^†; lenient etc. 740; exorable^†, forbearing; melting etc. v.; weak.    ... show more

Polish: pobłażliwy

Soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe.

synonym: gentle.

Roget 405: inaudible; scarcely audible, just audible; low, dull; stifled, muffled; hoarse, husky; gentle, soft, faint; floating; purling, flowing etc. v.; whispered etc. v.; liquid; soothing; dulcet etc. (melodious) 413; susurrant^†, susurrous^†.    ... show more

Polish: delikatny

Having little impact:
— A soft (or light) tapping at the window.

synonyms: easy, gentle.

Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance:
— He was too soft for the army.

synonyms: flabby, flaccid.

Roget 324: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile^†, tractable; malleable, extensile, sequacious^†, inelastic; aluminous^†; remollient^†.    yielding etc. v.; flabby, limp, flimsy.    doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony^†.    flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous^†, medullary [Anat.], argillaceous, mellow.    soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as chicken.    ... show more

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile^†; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless^†, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic^†, asthenic^†; nervous.    soft, effeminate, feminate^†, womanly.    frail, fragile, shattery^†; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy^†; drooping, tottering etc. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied etc. 158; decrepit.    languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish^†; sickly etc. (disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid^†, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.    unstrengthened etc. 159^†, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless^†, defenseless etc. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.    on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless etc. 429.    ... show more

Willing to negotiate and compromise.

Not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship:
— A soft job.

synonyms: cushy, easygoing.

Polish: ciepły, cieplutki

Mild and pleasant:
— A soft breeze.

synonyms: balmy, mild.

Not brilliant or glaring:
— The moon cast soft shadows.
— Soft pastel colors.

synonym: subdued.

Polish: subtelny, łagodny, delikatny, miękki

In a relaxed manner; or without hardship.

synonym: easy.