soft
Easily giving way under pressure.
Adjective 4 meanings
Easily giving way under pressure.
“My head sank easily into the soft pillow.”
Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
“Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.”
Quiet.
“I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.”
Gentle.
“There was a soft breeze blowing.”
Noun 3 meanings
A soft drink.
A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
A soft sound or part of a sound.
Etymology
From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”).
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SOFT at a glance
SOFT has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (S 1 + O 1 + F 4 + T 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,077 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with soft
All rhymes- LOFT7
- CROFT10
- ALOFT8
- TOFT7
- HAYLOFT16
- UNDERCROFT16
- SUPERSOFT14
- ULTRASOFT12
- COFT9
- COCKLOFT19
- CORNLOFT13
- OVERSOFT14
One letter away
- SORT4
- SOFA7
- LOFT7
- SIFT7
- SOOT4
- TOFT7
- SOUT4
- SAFT7
- COFT9
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