English-Swedish translations for soft

• mjuk
  EU måste därför ikläda sig rollen som ”mjuk makt”.Europe must therefore assume its role as a soft power.
  Mjuk lagstiftning innebär att parlamentet kan kringgås.Soft law means that Parliament may be circumvented.
  I sitt inledningsanförande tog Radwan upp en viktig punkt om mjuk lagstiftning.In his introduction Mr Radwan raised an important point concerning soft law.
• blid
  Hon var inte den blida kvinna han trott.
  Vintern var allt annat än blid.
• mild
  En frivillig kontroll är en synnerligen mild kontrollform.Voluntary monitoring is a very soft option.
  Fyra eller fem tunga förbrytare kan få milda domar för att ytterligare en annan skall kunna fällas.Four or five very hard criminals may be given soft sentences to convict one.
  Vi kommer att rösta för en mild kritik eller så kommer vi i övermorgon, torsdag, att rösta för att kommissionen omedelbart avgår.We will vote for a 'soft' censure, or else the day after tomorrow, on Thursday, we will vote for a censure involving immediate resignations.

Definition of soft

• Easily giving way under pressure
• Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh
• Quiet
• Gentle
• Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind
• Gentle in action or motion; easy
• Weak in character; impressible
• Requiring little or no effort; easy
• Not bright or intense
• Having a slight angle from straight
• Voiced; sonant
• voiceless
• Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy
• Low in dissolved calcium compounds
• Foolish
• Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard
• Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action
• Effeminate
• Agreeable to the senses
• Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye
• Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows
• Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast
• Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly
• A soft or foolish person; an idiot

Examples

• My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
• Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
• soft silk; a soft skin
• I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
• There was a soft breeze blowing.
• soft eyes
• soft lighting
• At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.
• Its important to dance on soft knees to avoid injury.
• When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
• You wont need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.
• The admin imposed a soft block/ban on the user or a soft lock on the article
• a soft liniment
• soft wines
• soft colours
• the soft outline of the snow-covered hill
• Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.

Related words

• software
• softy
• softly
• softball
• airsoft
• soften
• softener
• softness
• softening