{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "sɑft", "sɔft" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftī (“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.", "From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte (“softly”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftō (“softly”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Easily giving way under pressure.\nMy head sank easily into the soft pillow." }, { "mean": "(of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.\nPolish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.\nsoft silk; a soft skin" }, { "mean": "(of a sound) Quiet.\nI could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees." }, { "mean": "Gentle.\nThere was a soft breeze blowing." }, { "mean": "Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.\nsoft eyes" }, { "mean": "Gentle in action or motion; easy." }, { "mean": "Weak in character; impressible." }, { "mean": "Requiring little or no effort; easy." }, { "mean": "Not bright or intense.\nsoft lighting" }, { "mean": "Having a slight angle from straight.\nAt the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.\nIt's important to dance on soft knees to avoid injury." }, { "mean": "(phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis." }, { "mean": "(phonetics, rare) Voiceless." }, { "mean": "(Slavic phonology) Palatalized." }, { "mean": "(slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.\n\nWhen it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come." }, { "mean": "(of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.\nYou won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft." }, { "mean": "(UK, colloquial) Foolish." }, { "mean": "(physics) 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)" }, { "mean": "(of a person) Physically or emotionally weak." }, { "mean": "Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.\nThe admin imposed a soft ban on the user.\nMessages removed by soft deletion can be recovered if necessary." }, { "mean": "(UK, of a man) Effeminate." }, { "mean": "Agreeable to the senses.\na soft liniment\nsoft wines" }, { "mean": "Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.\nsoft colours\nthe soft outline of the snow-covered hill" }, { "mean": "(photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows." }, { "mean": "(computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.\nPress the red button on the soft phone to hang up." }, { "mean": "(of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction." }, { "mean": "(of a drink) Not containing alcohol." }, { "mean": "(finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.\nAntonym: hard" }, { "mean": "(of pornography) softcore." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.\nc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Soft, you; a word or two before you go.But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A soft or foolish person; an idiot.\n1859, George Eliot , chapter 9, in Adam Bede , volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first: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." }, { "mean": "(motorsports) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)" }, { "mean": "(colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.\n2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)\nThe expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step" }, { "mean": "(gaming, dated) Video game\nDecember 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly:\nSega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde\n1913, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., , , →OCLC, page 0091:\nThere was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(giving way under pressure): see Thesaurus:soft", "(of a cloth): non-abrasive, fluffy", "(gentle): gentle, light, nesh", "(of a sound): quiet", "(lacking strength or resolve): meek, mild, wimpy, nesh", "(foolish): daft, foolish, silly, stupid" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }