• Croatian: blag
• Finnish: lempeä, hellä
• French: doux , douce
• German: sanft
• Hungarian: gyengéd
• Irish: bog
• Italian: dolce m|f
• Korean: 부드럽다 (budeureobda, -reopda)
• Russian: мягкий (mjáχkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: bog, maoth, caomh, tlàth

• Finnish: vaimea
• German: leise
• Kurdish: ,
• Russian: мягкий (mjáχkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìn, binn

Related terms

• soft-boiled
• soft copy
• soft drink
• soft focus
• soft-hearted
• soft on
• soft palate
• soft serve
• soft soap
• soft shoe
• soft-spoken
• soft toy
• soft wood
• soften
• softly
• softness
• software
• softy

Business

• Adventure Soft, UK-based video game developer which was established in the 1980s by Mike Woodroffe
• Cocktail Soft, Japanese H game manufacturer
• Hudson Soft, Japanese publisher and developer
• Illusion Soft, company from Yokohama, Japan
• L-Soft, provider of electronic mailing list management and marketing software
• Monolith Soft, entertainment company in Japan
• NCsoft, South Korean based online computer game company
• Soft Reklambyrå, Swedish-based interactive agency

Economics

• Soft commodity, commodity that is grown, rather than mined
• Soft count, process for counting banknotes in a casino or bank
• Soft currency, form of money in use around the world
• Soft Kiwi,a currency trader in NYC ,known to be soft at times.

Literature

• Soft!, novel by Rupert Thomson
• The Soft Machine, novel by William S. Burroughs

Music

• Soft (band), a New York indie rock band
• "Soft", song by Kings of Leon from their album Aha Shake Heartbreak
• Soft Ballet, Japanese industrial and synthpop band
• Soft Cell, English synthesizer duo during the early 1980s
• Soft Machine, pioneering English psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz fusion band from Canterbury
• Soft pedal, one of the standard pedals on a piano
• Soft rock, style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening
• The Soft Bulletin, the ninth album released by The Flaming Lips
• The Soft Machine (album), 1968 album by Soft Machine
• The Soft Parade, studio album by the psychedelic rock band The Doors

Photography

• Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation, U.S. court case between a commercial photographer and a search engine company
• Soft focus, term used in photography and optics to describe a lens flaw

Soft: Comftable

Politics

• Soft balancing, recent addition to balance of power theory used to describe non-military forms of balancing
• Soft law, quasi-legal instruments which do not have any binding force
• Soft left, the more moderate left wing forces in the British Labour Party in the 1980s
• Soft money, indirect, unregulated donations to organizations that support a candidate but are not officially affiliated to his or her campaign
• Soft paternalism, political philosophy

Biology

• Soft palate, soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth
• Soft rush, common plant native in most temperate countries
• Soft tissue, tissue that connects, supports, or surrounds other structures or organs of the body

Computer science

• Dojin soft, video games created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups
• Soft computing, collection of new computational techniques in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• Soft error, signal or datum which is wrong in electronics and computing
• Soft heap, variant on the simple heap data structure in computer science
• Soft hyphen, point at which a word may be broken
• Soft microprocessor, microprocessor core written on any hardware description language
• Soft phone, piece of software for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer
• Soft reboot, restarting a computer under software control
• Soft return, automatically-entered return in a word processor when the text reaches the end of the line
• Soft updates, approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage in computer file systems

Other science

• Soft matter, condensed phase
• Soft science, academic research or scholarship whose adherence to scientific principle is questionable
• Soft water, types of water that contain few or no calcium or magnesium ions
• The opposite of one of the many types of hardness
• The opposite of the texture roughness

Other

• Soft drink, almost any cold drink that does not contain alcohol
• Soft gamma repeater, astronomical object
• Soft handover, feature used by the CDMA standard
• Soft lithography, set of methods for fabricating or replicating structures
• Soft polytheism, variety of polytheism
• Soft security, security which protects something from harm in quiet and unobtrusive ways
• Soft sign, symbol in the Cyrillic alphabet
• Soft skills, cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark people
• Soft systems methodology, approach to organisational process modelling
• Soft target, unarmored or otherwise unprotected object to be destroyed
• Soft Tennis, racket game played on a court of two halves

See also

• Microsoft
• Soft soap
• Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier
• Soft-shelled
• Soft-skinned
• Software (disambiguation)

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