There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
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Francis is well into his seventies, looks it, has a mild demeanor and soft speaking style; but his rhetoric is electrifying.
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My surgeon told me my bones were so soft he could barely install the screws.
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On it a young beardless man speaks Chechen and Arabic with a soft accent.
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It makes me feel ridiculous to think I was soft enough to believe that rubbage.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
She almost always wore a pleasant smile on her rosy lips; a light of loving tenderness generally shone in her soft blue eyes.
Minnie Brown|Daniel Wise
Above, the aurora flashed red shafts, while a soft moaning filled the sky.
Menotah|Ernest G. Henham
She saw that his lips were firm, under his soft faded mustache.
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He drew his hand away from her as if the soft touch of her lips had been fire that burned it.
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British Dictionary definitions for soft
soft
/ (sɒft) /
adjective
easy to dent, work, or cut without shattering; malleable
not hard; giving little or no resistance to pressure or weight
fine, light, smooth, or fluffy to the touch
gentle; tranquil
(of music, sounds, etc) low and pleasing
(of light, colour, etc) not excessively bright or harsh
(of a breeze, climate, etc) temperate, mild, or pleasant
dialectdrizzly or rainya soft day; the weather has turned soft
slightly blurred; not sharply outlinedsoft focus
(of a diet) consisting of easily digestible foods
kind or lenient, often excessively so
easy to influence or impose upon
prepared to compromise; not doctrinairethe soft left
informalfeeble or silly; simple (often in the phrase soft in the head)
unable to endure hardship, esp through too much pampering
physically out of condition; flabbysoft muscles
loving; tendersoft words
informalrequiring little exertion; easya soft job
chem(of water) relatively free of mineral salts and therefore easily able to make soap lather
(of a drug such as cannabis) nonaddictive or only mildly addictiveCompare hard (def. 19)
(of news coverage) concentrating on trivial stories or those with human interest
phonetics
an older word for lenis
(not in technical usage) denoting the consonants c and g in English when they are pronounced as palatal or alveolar fricatives or affricates (s, / dʒ /, / ʃ /, / ð /, / tʃ /) before e and i, rather than as velar stops (k, g)
(in the Slavonic languages) palatalized before a front vowel or a special character (soft sign) written as Ь
unprotected against attacka soft target
militaryunarmoured, esp as applied to a truck by comparison with a tank
finance, mainlyUS(of prices, a market, etc) unstable and tending to decline
(of a currency) in relatively little demand, esp because of a weak balance of payments situation
(of radiation, such as X-rays and ultraviolet radiation) having low energy and not capable of deep penetration of materials
physics(of valves or tubes) only partially evacuated
related to the performance of non-specific, undefinable taskssoft skills such as customer services and office support
soft onorsoft about
gentle, sympathetic, or lenient towards
feeling affection or infatuation for
adverb
in a soft mannerto speak soft
noun
a soft object, part, or piece
informal See softie
interjectionarchaic
quiet!
wait!
Derived forms of soft
softly, adverb
Word Origin for soft
Old English sōfte; related to Old Saxon sāfti, Old High German semfti gentle