A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
(motor racing) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)
(colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
(computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
Easily giving way under pressure.
(of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
(of a sound) 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.
(phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
(phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
(Slavic phonology) Palatalized.
(slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
(of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
(UK, colloquial) Foolish.
(physics) 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)
(of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
(UK, of a man) Effeminate.
Agreeable to the senses.
Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
(photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
(computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
(of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
(of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
(finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
(of pornography) 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.
(obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
(archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.