SOFT vs SPIRANT: NOUN
- Plural Rags of loosely woven or knitted goods, such as flannel, hosiery, etc.
- A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
- A consonant uttered with perceptible blowing, or expulsion of breath; an alphabetic sound in the utterance of which the organs are brought near together but not wholly closed; a rustling, or fricative, or continuable consonant.
- A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-208.
- A fricative.
SOFT vs SPIRANT: ADJECTIVE
- Not brilliant or glaring; subdued.
- Not loud, harsh, or irritating.
- Smooth or fine to the touch.
- Not tense and therefore capable of absorbing the impact of a ball or puck and of catching, receiving, or controlling it.
- Not sharply drawn or delineated.
- Mild; balmy.
- Tender or affectionate.
- Attracted or emotionally involved.
- Not stern; lenient.
- Lacking strength of character; weak.
- Not demanding or difficult; easy.
- Out of condition; flabby.
- Easily molded, cut, or worked.
- Yielding readily to pressure or weight.
- Tolerant or lenient
- Having little impact
- Used of beverages; not containing alcohol
- Not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
- Easily hurt
- Used chiefly as a direction or description in music
- Of speech sounds; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
- Metaphorically soft
- Lacking in hardness relatively or comparatively
- Simple-minded or foolish.
- Of sound; relatively low in volume
- Palatalized, as certain consonants in Slavic languages.
- Voiced and weakly articulated.
- Sibilant rather than guttural, as c in certain and g in gem.
- Having a low or lower power of penetration.
- Nonaddictive or mildly addictive. Used of certain drugs.
- Nonalcoholic.
- Having low dissolved mineral content.
- Of or relating to a paper currency as distinct from a hard currency backed by gold.
- Being a turn in a specific direction at an angle less acute than other possible routes.
- Softcore.
- Using or based on data that is not readily quantifiable or amenable to experimental verification or refutation.
- Informal and entertaining without confronting difficult issues or hard facts.
- Unprotected against or vulnerable to attack.
- Scored on a shot that the goalie should have blocked.
- Based on conciliation or compromise.
- Gradually declining in trend; not firm.
- Fricative.
- Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
SOFT vs SPIRANT: ADVERB
- In a relaxed manner; or without hardship
- In a soft manner; gently.
- N/A
SOFT vs SPIRANT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Mild and pleasant
- Willing to negotiate and compromise
- Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- Soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- Not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- Produced with vibration of the vocal cords
- Compassionate and kind; conciliatory
- In archery, smooth and even in flexure and recoil: said of a bow.
- Nearly free from lime or magnesia salts, and therefore forming a lather with soap without leaving a curd-like deposit: said of water.
- Bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic: said of coal.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; mild to the eye; not strong or glaring; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast: as, soft colors; the soft coloring of a picture.
- Smooth; flowing; not rough or vehement; not harsh; gentle or melodious to the ear: as, a soft sound; soft accents; soft whispers.
- Mild and agreeable; gentle; genial; kindly.
- Affecting the senses in a mild, smooth, bland, delicate, or agreeable manner.
- Yielding readily to pressure; easily penetrated; impressible; yielding: opposed to hard: as, a soft bed; a soft apple; soft earth; soft wood; a soft mineral; easily susceptible of change of form; hence, easily worked; malleable: as, soft iron; lead is softer than gold.
- Softly; gently; quietly.
- (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
- To soften; make soft.
- Go softly! hold! stop! not so fast!
- (`soft' is nonstandard)
- Or without hardship
- In a relaxed manner
- Not burdensome or demanding
- Not strong or robust
- Out of condition
- Not harsh or stern or severe
- Soft and mild
- Produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate
- (of speech sounds)
- Conciliatory
- Not brilliant or glaring
- Compassionate and kind
- N/A
SOFT vs SPIRANT: RELATED WORDS
- Muted, Downy, Cushioned, Gentle, Fleecy, Squashy, Velvety, Fluffy, Mushy, Spongy, Softening, Softened, Cushiony, Weak, Squishy
- Rhotacism, Sibilate, Rhotacize, Nonsonant, Sonorant, Velar, Approximant, Affrication, Affricative, Voiceless, Bilabial, Soft, Sibilant, Fricative consonant, Fricative
SOFT vs SPIRANT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Muted, Downy, Cushioned, Gentle, Fleecy, Squashy, Velvety, Fluffy, Mushy, Spongy, Softening, Softened, Cushiony, Weak, Squishy
- Obstruent, Rhotacism, Sibilate, Rhotacize, Nonsonant, Sonorant, Velar, Approximant, Affrication, Affricative, Voiceless, Bilabial, Soft, Sibilant, Fricative
SOFT vs SPIRANT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- They usually occur in is naturally soft or has been made soft by decay.
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- You want your mattress soft in the proper places, without being overly soft.
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- Law, which mentions something about exceptions to it being described by the spirant law and later in the first sentence mentions voiceless dentals.
- Thus, functors have the voiced interdental spirant and contentives have the unvoiced.
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