Soft vs Indulgent - What's the difference?
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Easily giving way under pressure.
(of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
* Bible, Matt. xi. 8
Gentle.
* Shakespeare
* Tyndale
Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 1
* Wordsworth
Gentle in action or motion; easy.
* Milton
Weak in character; impressible.
* Glanvill
Requiring little or no effort; easy.
Not bright or intense.
(of a road intersection) Having an acute angle.
(of a sound) Quiet.
* Shakespeare
(linguistics) voiced, sonant
(linguistics, rare) voiceless
(linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized
(slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
(of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
(UK, colloquial) Foolish.
* Burton
(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)
(of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
(UK, of a man) Effeminate.
* Jeremy Taylor
Agreeable to the senses.
* Milton
Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
* Shakespeare
(lb) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:A knight soft riding toward them.
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*:There 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.
Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
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Soft is a related term of indulgent.
As adjectives the difference between soft and indulgent
is that soft is easily giving way under pressure while indulgent is disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc, or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.As an interjection soft
is (archaic) be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.As an adverb soft
is (lb) softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.As a noun soft
is a soft or foolish person; an idiot.soft
English
Adjective
(er)- My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
- Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
- soft''' silk; a '''soft skin
- They that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
- There was a soft breeze blowing.
- I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; / Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.
- The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
- soft eyes
- A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- A face with gladness overspread, / Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.
- On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
- The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
- a soft job
- soft lighting
- At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the soft left.
- I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
- Her voice was ever soft , / Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
- DH represents the voiced (soft)'' th ''of English these clothes. —
- When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
- You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft .
- He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
- The admin imposed a soft''' block/ban on the user or a '''soft lock on the article.
- A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft , and wandering.
- a soft liniment
- soft wines
- the soft , delicious air
- soft colours
- the soft outline of the snow-covered hill
- The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds made the softest lights imaginable.
Synonyms
* (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, stupidAntonyms
* (giving way under pressure) hard, resistant, solid, stony * (of a cloth) abrasive, scratchy * (gentle) harsh, rough, strong * (acute) hard * (of a sound) loud * (lacking strength or resolve) firm, strict, tough * (of water) hard * (foolish) sensibleDerived terms
* soft-boiled * soft copy * soft drink * soften * soft focus * soft-hearted * softly * softness * soft on * soft palate * soft power * soft science fiction * soft serve * soft shoe * soft soap * soft-spoken * soft touch * soft toy * software * softwood * softySee also
* mollifyInterjection
(en interjection)- Soft , you; a word or two before you go.
- But, soft ! What light through yonder window breaks?
Adverb
(en adverb)Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----indulgent
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Adjective
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