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soft spot
soft spotn.1. A tender or sentimental feeling: has a soft spot for stray animals.2. A weak or vulnerable point: a soft spot in the nation's defense strategy.3. See fontanel.soft spot n a sentimental fondness (esp in the phrase have a soft spot for) soft′ spot`
n. 1. a weak or vulnerable position, place, condition, etc. 2. emotional susceptibility: a soft spot for kittens. [1835–45, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | soft spot - a place of especial vulnerabilityweak part, weak spotweakness - the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"Achilles' heel - a seemingly small but actual mortal weaknessjugular - a vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"underbelly - the quality of being weak or unprotected; "the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill | | 2. | soft spot - a sentimental affection; "she had a soft spot for her youngest son"affection, affectionateness, philia, warmness, warmheartedness, fondness, tenderness, heart - a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" | | 3. |  soft spot - any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetusfontanel, fontanellechild's body - the body of a human childorifice, porta, opening - an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"braincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brainanterior fontanelle - corresponds to the bregma when bones have ossifiedsphenoid fontanel, sphenoid fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel, sphenoidal fontanelle - the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified |
soft spot
a soft spotA particular fondness or affection for someone or something, often for reasons that hard to understand or articulate. I've always had a soft spot for cheesy action films—there's just an earnest goofiness about them that I like. Despite how troublesome he could be, the teacher had a soft spot for Daniel.See also: soft, spotsoft spot1. A weak or vulnerable point, as in That's the soft spot in his argument. [Mid-1900s] 2. have a soft spot for. Have a tender or sentimental feeling for, as in Grandpa had a soft spot for Brian, his first grandson. This expression, first recorded in 1753 as "a soft place in one's heart," uses soft in the sense of "tender." See also: soft, spotsoft spot
soft spotn.1. A tender or sentimental feeling: has a soft spot for stray animals.2. A weak or vulnerable point: a soft spot in the nation's defense strategy.3. See fontanel.Soft spot
Soft spotStocks or groups of stocks that remain weak in a strong market.Soft SpotA stock that does not trend upward when the majority of the market does. There are a number of explanations for a soft spot's existence. A soft spot may be a countercyclical stock or it may belong to an industry that is in decline. Alternatively, it may simply be a poorly managed company. See also: Bear Market, Bull Market.soft spot
Synonyms for soft spotnoun a place of especial vulnerabilitySynonymsRelated Words- weakness
- Achilles' heel
- jugular
- underbelly
noun a sentimental affectionRelated Words- affection
- affectionateness
- philia
- warmness
- warmheartedness
- fondness
- tenderness
- heart
noun any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetusSynonymsRelated Words- child's body
- orifice
- porta
- opening
- braincase
- brainpan
- cranium
- anterior fontanelle
- sphenoid fontanel
- sphenoid fontanelle
- sphenoidal fontanel
- sphenoidal fontanelle
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