SOFT-BOILED Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

soft-boiled

adjective

Definition of soft-boiled

as in tasteless

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Recent Examples of soft-boiled It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 Boiled Placing eggs in boiling water with the shells on is another healthy cooking method that can be used until the yolk is runny (soft-boiled) or fully cooked (hard-boiled). — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026 The result, according to researchers led by chemist Pellegrino Musto, is that there are now many different cooking methods beyond the simple hard- and soft-boiled options. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025 The egg plate that was sent to some 600 guests for his spring 2026 men’s show was inspired by a 1975 archive piece, as well as Dior’s love of 18th-century decor, tableware and food, with a predilection for jellied or soft-boiled eggs. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for soft-boiled

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Adjective

On its face, these posts may appear bizarre, tasteless and tone-deaf.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
But Claypool is undeniably one of the bass guitar’s fearless explorers, taking the slap bass innovations of funk legends like Larry Graham to strange, exciting, and tasteless new places.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of tasteless

Adjective

Over the ensuing centuries, high-IQ couples wait for just the right time to have children, while their lower-IQ counterparts breed aplenty until mankind becomes exponentially more vapid.

— Donald Liebenson, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
Dinner floated by with vapid comments around the meal and eventually died out.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of vapid

Adjective

The Netflix series from Rebecca Cutter starring Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow, who lead a cutthroat yet soapy set of Texas housewives, has nabbed a season three renewal ahead of season two’s return.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Shawn could hear his mother still clattering about in the kitchen, could smell the soapy smell of the man’s body.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of soapy

Adjective

In the meantime, there’s a lot of unwieldy comic commotion involving a missing corpse, a tweaking, naked Dwight and enough insipid TV sibling bickering to clog the airwaves for a decade.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Otherwise, the defence failed to defend, the midfield got overrun and the attack was so insipid that Wrexham managed just one shot on target — George Dobson’s 35th-minute effort that Konstantinos Mavropanos blocked just in front of the goal line.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of insipid

Adjective

Early symptoms include cough, runny nose, fever as high as 104 Fahrenheit and red, watery eyes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Patients develop pneumonia and may show fever, headache, weakness, shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and bloody or watery mucus.

— News Editor, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of watery

Adjective

Friendships were forged over sudsy beverages — often, for us, in the form of a Mexican Chocolate Stout or the Citrus Paradisi IPA.

— Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
John Tufts Five Indiana breweries floated their way to the sudsy top of the 2026 World Beer Cup, earning gold, silver and bronze medal distinctions at this year's international event.

— John Tufts, IndyStar, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of sudsy

Adjective

But the firing and the fallout make for an invigoratingly melodramatic chapter in a movie that is, again, about a vibe of in-betweenness, of hurry up and wait.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026
Swift pulled from a few melodramatic thrillers throughout the years.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of melodramatic

Adjective

These days, a soap-operatic scene like this is common fare in many reality TV shows about high-end real estate.

— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Jackie and her longtime mate, Shadow, captured the attention of a global audience through a livestream of their nest that showed their soap-operatic efforts to hatch and raise their babies.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of soap-operatic

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