Nearby Words
softness
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softness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impressibility |
| Synonyms: | flexibility, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability |
| Main Entry: | softness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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Adjectives: |
argillaceous, doughy, downy, ductile, edematous, extensile, flabby, flaccid, fleecy, flexible, flexile, flimsy, flocculent, frush, inelastic, lenitive, limber, limbered, limp, lissom, lithe, lithesome, malacodermous, malleable, malmy, medullary, mellow, mollescent, mollipilose, mollitious, mome, nesh, pannose, pinnate, plastic, pliable, pliant, pulvinar, remollient, sectile, sequacious, soft, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, spongy, supple, tender, tender as a chicken, tractable, tractile, wangary, withy, yielding, yielding as wax
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| Concept: | Softness. |
| Category: | 1. Solid Matter |
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-nouns
softness, pliableness; flexibility; pliancy, pliability; sequacity, malleability; ductility, tractility; extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity., clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding., mollification; softening.
-verbs
render soft; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash., bend, yield, relent, relax, give.
-adjectives
soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensiole, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient., yielding; flabby, limp, flimsy., doughy, spongy., flaccid, flocculent, downy; oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow., soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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| Antonyms: | hardness |
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| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny |
| Main Entry: | consistency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thickness |
| Synonyms: | bendability, bendableness, compactness, density, elasticity, fabric, firmness, flexibility, frangibility, hardness, limberness, moldability, organization, plasticity, pliability, softness, solidity, suppleness, texture, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
| Synonyms: | airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
| Antonyms: | coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something heard or audible |
| Synonyms: | accent, din, harmony, intonation, loudness, melody, modulation, music, noise, note, pitch, racket, report, resonance, reverberation, ringing, softness, sonance, sonancy, sonority, sonorousness, static, tenor, tonality, tone, vibration, voice |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| Main Entry: | gentleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical sensitivity |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, fragility, mildness, pliability, pliancy, smoothness, softness, sweetness, tenderness |
| Antonyms: | hardness, imperviousness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | femininity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | girlishness |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, docility, effeminateness, feminality, femineity, feminineness, gentleness, kindness, muliebrity, softness, womanhood, womanliness |
| Antonyms: | maleness, masculinity |
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