soft

soft
adj.
VERBS
be, feel, look
become, get, go, grow, turn
stay

Her skin had stayed soft and supple.

ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
beautifully, incredibly, wonderfully

The fabric has a beautifully soft texture.

all

These tomatoes have gone all soft.

relatively
a little, slightly, etc.
Soft is used with these nouns: ↑bed, ↑blanket, ↑breeze, ↑brown, ↑brush, ↑caress, ↑carpet, ↑centre, ↑chair, ↑cheek, ↑cheese, ↑chuckle, ↑clay, ↑click, ↑cloth, ↑coal, ↑colour, ↑consistency, ↑contact lens, ↑cotton, ↑couch, ↑cover, ↑cry, ↑curl, ↑curve, ↑cushion, ↑dirt, ↑dough, ↑drawl, ↑drink, ↑drug, ↑earth, ↑eye, ↑fabric, ↑feature, ↑flesh, ↑focus, ↑fold, ↑footstep, ↑fruit, ↑fur, ↑glow, ↑goal, ↑grass, ↑groan, ↑ground, ↑growl, ↑grunt, ↑hand, ↑heart, ↑hiss, ↑hum, ↑kiss, ↑knock, ↑landing, ↑laugh, ↑laughter, ↑launch, ↑leather, ↑light, ↑lighting, ↑linen, ↑margarine, ↑material, ↑mattress, ↑melody, ↑metal, ↑moan, ↑money, ↑moonlight, ↑mouth, ↑mud, ↑murmur, ↑music, ↑option, ↑palate, ↑palm, ↑passage, ↑patch, ↑pencil, ↑pillow, ↑pornography, ↑rain, ↑ray, ↑rock, ↑roll, ↑rumble, ↑rustle, ↑sand, ↑scent, ↑shade, ↑sheet, ↑shoe, ↑sigh, ↑silk, ↑skin, ↑snow, ↑sob, ↑sofa, ↑sound, ↑splash, ↑surface, ↑swell, ↑tap, ↑target, ↑texture, ↑thud, ↑thump, ↑tinkle, ↑tissue, ↑tone, ↑towel, ↑toy, ↑tread, ↑turf, ↑velvet, ↑voice, ↑water, ↑whimper, ↑whisper, ↑wire, ↑wood, ↑wool, ↑word

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