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- soft music played in the background while we ate
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- I like this sweater the best because it is so soft and comfortable
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- soft mattresses make it very easy to fall asleep, but they have a tendency to get lumpy
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- looking for a soft job in local government
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- soft recruits who will get toughened up in the army
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- a soft person who tends to yield to stronger personalities
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- characterless,
- effete,
- frail,
- invertebrate,
- limp-wristed,
- milk-and-water,
- namby-pamby,
- nerveless,
- spineless,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakened,
- weakling,
- wet
- [British],
- wimpish,
- wimpy,
- wishy-washy
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- a soft breeze coming off the lake
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- a warm, soft bed to rest my weary bones
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- felt that his wife had been a little too soft on their son, and that more discipline was in order
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- it was a lovely soft spring evening
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- sometimes I wonder if you've gone soft in the head
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- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- bonehead,
- boneheaded,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- bubbleheaded,
- chuckleheaded,
- dense,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- doltish,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dorky
- [slang],
- dull,
- dumb,
- dunderheaded,
- empty-headed,
- fatuous,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- mindless,
- oafish,
- obtuse,
- opaque,
- pinheaded,
- senseless,
- simple,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thick,
- thick-witted,
- thickheaded,
- unintelligent,
- unsmart,
- vacuous,
- weak-minded,
- witless
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“Soft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soft. Accessed 26 May. 2022.
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The first known use of soft was before the 12th century
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