soft

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /sɒft/|/sɔːft/    美 /sɔft/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot. archaic,countable
    — It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.
  2. A soft drink. countable,uncountable
    — Artois' story with water and softs was embodied in the difficult relationship between Raymond Boon and Spa's main owner and CEO, Guy du Bois.
  3. A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts. countable
  4. A soft sound or part of a sound. colloquial,countable
    — The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
  5. A piece of software. countable,dated,nonstandard,rare
    — Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.
  6. Banknotes. UK,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes).
形容词 adj.
  1. Easily giving way under pressure.
    — My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
  2. Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
    — Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
  3. Quiet.
    — I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
  4. Gentle.
    — There was a soft breeze blowing.
  5. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
    — soft eyes
  6. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
    — On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
  7. Limp, weak.
  8. Weak in character; impressible.
    — The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
  9. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
    — Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
  10. Not bright or intense.
    — soft lighting
  11. Having a slight angle from straight.
    — At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.
  12. Voiced; sonant; lenis.
    — DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes.
  13. Voiceless. rare
  14. Palatalized.
  15. Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing. slang
    — He’s too soft for the ruthless world of finance.
  16. Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy. slang
    — When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
  17. Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
    — You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
  18. Foolish. UK,colloquial
    — He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
  19. Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
  20. Physically or emotionally weak.
    — see: snowflake and softie
  21. Effeminate. UK
    — A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.
  22. Agreeable to the senses.
    — a soft liniment
  23. Agreeable generally; pleasant. UK,dated,slang
    — And then there'll be the insurance people. And then a young man introducing himself as "The Press". I'll tell you what, sergeant, this being burgled isn't such a soft thing after all.
  24. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
    — soft colours
  25. Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
  26. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
    — The admin imposed a soft ban on the user.
  27. Emulated with software; not physically real.
    — Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.
  28. Not likely to cause addiction.
  29. Not containing alcohol.
  30. Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
    — soft on crime
  31. Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
    — Overall the rental market is soft and multifamily permit activity is almost nonexistent.
  32. Softcore
  33. Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
    — soft humiliation play
  34. Of paper: unsized.
  35. Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
  36. Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
  37. Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
  38. Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone. idiomatic,informal
  39. Fake; counterfeit. UK,slang
    — All along, Nickle, I have tried to make you realise that this stroke was not to be a matter of planting a few soft fivers on racecourse bookies—I used to think that you had imagination. We intend to make notes of all the values and chiefly of the big ones.
副词 adv.
  1. Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. obsolete
    — A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde
感叹词 intj.
  1. Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. archaic
    — Soft you; a word or two before you goe: / I haue done the State ſome ſeruice, and they know’t: / No more of that.

词形变化

softer comparative softest superlative softs plural more soft comparative most soft superlative

词汇关系

近义词
cushiony flabby flaccid flexible soft spongy mellow malleable moldable pliable tender yielding zate
反义词
firm hard resistant solid stony unyielding
下位词
doughy downy flocculent foamy spumescent
衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
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”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
词源 2
From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte (“softly”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftō (“softly”).
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