Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.

Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.

Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.

Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.

Gentle in action or motion; easy.

Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.

Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

It is said of a wine that has little or no acidity and tannin (potentially a problem for balance).

having a gentle, pliable, supple, hand.

A secondary coffee taste sensation characterized by an absence of any predominant taste sensation on any part of the tongue, except for subtle dryness. Caused by a concentration of salts high enough to neutralize the acids but not high enough to neutralize the sugars. Typified by washed arabica coffee from Santos, Brazil.

A wine with mild tannin or acid sensation with no harshness on the palate and after-palate is called soft.

easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"

not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "a soft job"

Wine with a pleasing finish.

Mild on the palate with no rough edges

A term applied to a wine that is not bright, crisp or high in acid.

Describes a wine with a mild tannin or acid sensation with no harshness on the palate or in the aftertaste.

Usually used to describe a wine that does not have vigor or the impact of a full-bodied wine. This is due to a low alcohol content and/or low acid or tannin.

Sounds or recorded tracks with poor transient response; too mellow or gentle. Sounds in which the peaks seem squashed or smeared.

opposite of crisp; smooth.

A quality of low acid coffees.

A coffee whose characteristics are mild and not overbearing.

not too tannic or acid

Describes a wine that is low in acid or tannin.

Mellow, without roughness or hotness to the throat.

A soft wine is one that is round and fruity, low in acidity and tannins, and may also be low in alcohol content, usually easy drinking but with little impact on the senses.

A term characterizing texture and referring to the amount of , and relationship between, a wine’s acid and tannin.

Describes wines low in acid or tannin (sometimes both), making for easy drinking. Opposite of hard.

A well rounded flavour lacking any harshness or acidity.

A delicate wine with a slight fruitiness. It can also refer to a lack of balance in more robust wines.

May refer to soft, gentle fruit in delicate wines, or to lack of acidity in wines without proper structure; used on a label occasionally to indicate low alcohol.

May refer to wines low in acid, gentle fruit, easy drinking and delicate wines.

A coffee that does not have acidity.

A well balanced wine that is mellow, pleasant, and has low acidity and low tannins is often described as “soft”. The wine's texture can also be described as soft.

The mellowness found in either a mature wine or a young wine with low tannins and acids.

Used to describe coffees that are low in acidity, such as the Indonesian varieties. Sometimes also called mellow or sweet. Also used to describe a coffee that does not affect the tongue in any noticeable manner.

A soft wine is one that is round and fruity, low in acidity, and has an absence of aggressive, hard tannins.

Mellow, well-rounded, mature tannins and little evidence of acidity

rolled off treble and bass producing very mellow sound but losing a lot of information.

You usually find this with older wines, where the tannins are mature, mellow and well-rounded, and there is little evidence of acidity.

Lush, inoffensive and smooth, often very commercial.

low in tannin and/or acidity; also refers to gentle fruit in delicate wines.

Mellow, well-rounded, mature tannins and low acidity.

Term to describe a wine with low acid and gentle tannins.

a wine with low tannin, acid or alcohol content that makes little impact on the palate.

Used to express smooth rather than crisp; not sweet.

A well-rounded flavor, lacking any harshness or acidity.

the term often used to describe easy drinking, smooth red wines.

Describes a wine with low acid/tannin, or alcohol content with little impact on the palate.

A wine that is not harsh, overly tannic, or acidic.

Suggest a mellow wine, usually low in acidity, and tannin.

Term used to describe a wine low in acids and tannins. Easy drinking and approachable.

describes a low level of acid and/or tannin.

Wines which are low in acid have a soft texture in the mouth.

Low-acid, mild-flavored coffees are referred to as soft.

Refers in particular to the texture of tannin and/or level of acidity.

Low levels of tannic acid, pleasant

Mellow, well-rounded quality to wine.

Describes wines low in acid and/or tannin. Usually an easy drinking wine, and can be quite fruity.

Low-acid, mellow, sweet.

A low-acid wine, not tart nor sour. Taken to extremes, it yields a wine that's 'fat' or 'flabby'. Many mass-market wines are consciously made on the soft side.

Generally has low acid / tannin content. Also describes wines with low alcohol content. Consequently has little impact on the palate (see also light).

A desirable characteristics in a delicate wine denoting a slight fruitiness. Also refers to a deficiency or lack of balance in more robust

A tea, which is under fermeted or oxidizes. Describes a tea which is lacking life. Opposite to brisk. Glossary X Y Z

A term for underfermented teas

Unremarkable flavor caused by poor firing during fermentation.

tea taster's term for underfermented teas

A tea which is under fermented or oxidized.

(Tea - Liquors) Lacking briskness

The opposite of briskness. Tea lacking any 'live' characteristics and is caused by inefficient fermentation and/or drying.

Lacking harshness; smoothly textured.

The opposite of "brisk"; caused by inefficient oxidation or firing.

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Refers to a model of vehicle that has generated little interest to consumers. A new or used vehicle can be soft.

tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"

Aspects that are "softer" in action, and probably will be perceived as less strong, or more passive than the hard aspects. Generally considered to represent themes of ease, and perhaps talent.

The opposite of "hard". (1) As applied to a photographic emulsion or developer, having a low contrast. (2) As applied to the lighting of a set, diffuse, giving a flat scene in which the brightness difference between highlights and shadows is small.

Water which has had hardness removed to below 5 ppm.

Easily deformed or penetrated. The opposite of hard.

Soft-instrument. An increasing number of musical instruments are now soft. The phrase means that the instrument is computer-based and performs according to software instructions. Modification in the software results in a change in the instruments performance. Fully soft instruments are not yet with us; all current music computers require some special hardware to carry out musical functions. This special hardware limits the adaptability of the instruments. It is likely that the first really soft instruments will appear within five years.

A soft hand is one which can bet hit without breaking. For example, an ace and a 7 would be a soft 18, since taking another card cannot make it go over 21. This is in contrast to hard hand (see hard).

hand with an ace that is playable as 1 or 11

(adj) Slightly out of focus.