Synonyms of the word

soft

• adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
• adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
• adj. Gentle.
• adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• adj. Weak in character; impressible.
• adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• adj. Not bright or intense.
• adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
• adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
• adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
• adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
• adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
• adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
• adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
• adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
• adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
• adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
• adj. Agreeable to the senses.
• adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
• n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

balmy

• adj. Producing balm.
• adj. Soothing or fragrant.
• adj. Mild and pleasant.
• adj. (informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.

brushed

• adj. rubbed, especially as a finish.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of brush.

cheeselike

• adj. Resembling cheese.

clement

• adj. Lenient or merciful; charitable.
• adj. Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances).

compressible

• adj. able to be compressed.
• adj. (topology, of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold) Containing a circle that does not serve…

conciliative

• adj. conciliatory.

conciliatory

• adj. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

continuant

• n. (phonetics) A linguistic sound other than a stop.
• n. (mathematics) A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix.
• n. (ontology) An endurant.
• adj. Continuing; prolonged; sustained.

cottony

• adj. Having some characteristics of cotton; soft and fluffy.

cushioned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of cushion.

cushiony

• adj. Like a cushion; soft and yielding.

cushy

• adj. (informal) Easy, making few demands, comfortable.
• adj. (chiefly US) Comfortable; often in a way that will suit a person's body.

delicate

• adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
• adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
• adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
• adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
• adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
• adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
• adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
• adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
• adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
• adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
• adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
• adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
• n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
• n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
• n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

demulcent

• adj. Soothing or softening.
• n. (medicine) A soothing medication used to relieve pain in inflamed tissues.

diffuse

• v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
• v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
• adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

diffused

• v. simple past tense and past participle of diffuse.

downlike

• adj. Resembling down (soft immature feathers) or some aspect of it.

downy

• adj. Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
• n. A blanket filled with down; a duvet.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

easygoing

• adj. (of a person) calm, relaxed, casual and informal.
• adj. (of a journey or pace) unhurried.

emollient

• n. Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer.
• n. Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
• adj. Moisturizing.
• adj. Soothing or mollifying.

euphonious

• adj. Pleasant-sounding; agreeable to the ear; possessing or demonstrating euphony.

falling

• v. present participle of fall.
• adj. That falls or fall.
• n. The action of the verb to fall.

flabby

• adj. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness;…
• adj. (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
• adj. (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
• adj. (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

flaccid

• adj. Flabby.
• adj. Soft; floppy.
• adj. Lacking energy or vigor.

fleecy

• adj. Resembling or covered in fleece.

flocculent

• adj. Flocculated, resembling bits of wool, woolly.
• adj. Covered in a woolly substance; downy.
• adj. Flaky.
• n. (astronomy) diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy.

flossy

• adj. Resembling floss.
• adj. (informal, slang) Extravagantly showy; flashy.

fluffy

• adj. Covered with fluff.
• adj. Light; soft; airy.
• adj. (colloquial) Warm and comforting.
• adj. (colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
• adj. Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
• n. Someone or something that is fluffy.
• n. (New Zealand) A babycino (frothy milk drink).

fricative

• n. (phonetics) Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and…
• adj. (phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

gentle

• adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
• adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
• adj. Docile and easily managed.
• adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
• adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude.
• adj. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
• v. (intransitive) to become gentle.
• v. (transitive) to ennoble.
• v. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate.
• v. (transitive) To soothe; to calm.
• n. (archaic) A person of high birth.
• n. (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
• n. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

hushed

• adj. Very quietly; in soft tones.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of hush.

indulgent

• adj. Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to…

lenient

• adj. Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
• n. (medicine) A lenitive; an emollient.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

mellow

• adj. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
• adj. Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.
• adj. Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
• adj. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
• adj. Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.
• adj. Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated, stoned, or high.
• n. A relaxed mood.
• v. (transitive) To make mellow; to relax or soften.
• v. (intransitive) To become mellow.

mild

• adj. Gentle and not easily angered.
• adj. (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict.
• adj. Not overly felt or seriously intended.
• adj. (of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
• adj. (of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
• adj. (of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
• adj. (of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp, or strong in flavor.
• n. (Britain) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale.

muffled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of muffle.
• adj. (of a sound) Stifled or covered up; diminished by interference.

murmuring

• v. present participle of murmur.
• n. A sound that murmurs.
• n. A complaint against something.

murmurous

• adj. Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur.

mushy

• adj. Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular.
• adj. Soft; squishy.
• adj. Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy.

muted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of mute.

napped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of nap.

overstuffed

• adj. Filled beyond capacity.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of overstuff.

padded

• adj. Having padding.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of pad.

palatal

• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the palate.
• adj. (dentistry, not comparable) Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.
• adj. (phonetics) Articulated at the hard palate.
• n. (phonetics) A palatal consonant.

palatalised

• adj. (phonetics, phonology, chiefly Britain) Having undergone palatalisation.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of palatalise.

palatalized

• adj. Alternative form of palatalised.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of palatalize.

permissive

• adj. Giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient.

pianissimo

• adv. (music) The musical term indicating that the piece (or a section of it) should be played very softly.
• n. A dynamic sign indicating that a portion of music should be played pianissimo.
• n. A portion of music that is played very softly.

piano

• n. (music) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys,…
• adj. (music) Soft, quiet.
• adj. In extended use; quiet, subdued.
• adv. (music) Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music).

qualitative

• adj. of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
• adj. (chemistry) of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.
• n. Something qualitative.

quiet

• adj. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
• adj. Having little motion or activity; calm.
• adj. Not busy, of low quantity.
• adj. Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.
• adj. Not showy; undemonstrative.
• adj. (software) Requiring little or no interaction.
• v. To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm.
• v. To cause someone to become quiet.
• n. The absence of sound; quietness.
• n. the absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
• interj. Be quiet.

rustling

• v. present participle of rustle.
• n. A series of rustles.

salving

• v. present participle of salve.

semisoft

• adj. (especially of food) Partially soft; partially melted.
• n. (rare) Any semisoft variety of cheese.

sibilant

• adj. Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash or surge.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant having a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

soft-spoken

• adj. Having a pleasant, gentle, mild manner of speech.

softened

• adj. Made soft.
• adj. (linguistics) aspirated.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of soften.

softening

• v. present participle of soften.
• n. The process of making something soft.
• n. The process of becoming soft.

softish

• adj. Somewhat soft.

sonant

• adj. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
• adj. (linguistics) voiced.
• n. (linguistics) A voiced letter.

soughing

• v. present participle of sough.
• n. A rushing, rustling sound.

spirant

• n. (linguistics, dated) A fricative.

spongelike

• adj. Like a sponge; spongy.

spongy

• adj. Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
• adj. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

squashy

• adj. Easily squashed when pressed.
• adj. Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot.

squeezable

• adj. Able to be squeezed.

squishy

• adj. (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud.
• adj. (figuratively, of a person) Used as a term of endearment.
• adj. (informal) Subjective or vague.
• adj. (politics, informal, derogatory) Politically moderate.

strident

• adj. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
• adj. Grating or obnoxious.
• adj. (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides.
• n. (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.

subdued

• adj. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
• adj. Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of subdue.

susurrant

• adj. (of speech or sound) Murmured, soft.

susurrous

• adj. Full of whispering or rustling sounds.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

unfit

• adj. Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
• adj. Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
• v. To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.

untoughened

• adj. Not toughened.

velvet

• n. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short…
• n. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
• n. (rare) A female chinchilla; a sow.
• n. (slang) The drug dextromethorphan.
• v. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
• v. (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
• v. To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
• adj. Made of velvet.
• adj. Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
• adj. (politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of…

velvety

• adj. Like velvet (but not velvet); soft, smooth, soothing. Not necessarily restricted to the sense of touch.

voiced

• v. simple past tense and past participle of voice.
• adj. (phonetics): Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s]…

warmhearted

• adj. Alternative form of warm-hearted.

whispering

• v. present participle of whisper.
• adj. that whispers.
• adj. associated with whispers.
• n. Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.

woolly

• adj. Made of wool.
• adj. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
• adj. (figuratively) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
• adj. (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
• adj. (obsolete) Clothed in wool.
• n. (informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
• n. (Liverpudlian, pejorative) Someone not born in Liverpool (especially from the towns of Wigan, St Helen's,…

wooly

• adj. (US) Alternative form of woolly.
• n. (US) Alternative form of woolly.

yielding

• v. present participle of yield.
• adj. Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
• n. A concession.