SPage 365
- English Word Soft Definition Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
- English Word Soft Definition Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
- English Word Soft-finned Definition Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.
- English Word Soft-headed Definition Weak in intellect.
- English Word Soft-hearted Definition Having softness or tenderness of heart; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection; gentle; meek.
- English Word Soft-shell Definition Alt. of Soft-shelled
- English Word Soft-shelled Definition Having a soft or fragile shell.
- English Word Soft-spoken Definition Speaking softly; having a mild or gentle voice; hence, mild; affable.
- English Word Softa Definition Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school.
- English Word Soften Definition To make soft or more soft.
- English Word Soften Definition To render less hard; -- said of matter.
- English Word Soften Definition To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
- English Word Soften Definition To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
- English Word Soften Definition To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
- English Word Soften Definition To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
- English Word Soften Definition To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
- English Word Soften Definition To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
- English Word Soften Definition To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
- English Word Soften Definition To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
- English Word Softened Definition of Soften
- English Word Softener Definition One who, or that which, softens.
- English Word Softening Definition of Soften
- English Word Softening Definition a. & n. from Soften, v.
- English Word Softish Definition Somewhat soft.
- English Word Softling Definition A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.
- English Word Softly Definition In a soft manner.
- English Word Softner Definition See Softener.
- English Word Softness Definition The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
- English Word Sogginess Definition The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.
- English Word Soggy Definition Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.