Gentle; permissive; lenient; slow to enforce discipline. / Unaccustomed to hard work.

A road shoulder made of gravel rather than asphalt or concrete.

(marketing) The release of a product or service, particularly software, to a limited audience in order to gain data on the product’s usage and acceptance by customers.

plural of soft toy

The topping of historic walls with turf and soil to reduce frost and water damage.

plural of soft science

A field of scientific inquiry that is limited by the nature of its subject matter in its ability to establish strictly measurable criteria.

plural of soft water

A form of martial art in which the goal is throwing one's opponent off balance by means of pushes and pulls, as opposed to incapacitating one's opponent out with kicks and punches.

The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.