| softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
|---|
| (noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
| soften | (verb) become soft or softer | - |
|---|
| (verb) make soft or softer | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, weaken |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, moderate |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, cushion |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) soft or softer | - |
| (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, yield |
| softened | (adjective) toned down | - |
|---|
| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: dull, muffled, muted |
| softener | (noun) a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
|---|
| softening | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, salving |
|---|
| (noun) the process of becoming softer | - |
| softheaded | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, screwball |
|---|
| softhearted | (adjective) easily moved to pity or sorrow | Synonyms: soft-boiled |
|---|
| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
|---|
| softie | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softy |
|---|
| softish | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: semisoft |
|---|
| softly | (adverb) with low volume | Synonyms: quietly |
|---|
| (adverb) with little weight or force | Synonyms: gently, lightly |
| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly | Synonyms: piano |
| (adverb) in a manner that is pleasing to the senses | - |
| softness | (noun) the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be lenient in judging others | - |
| (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: gentleness, mildness |
| (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, unmanliness, womanishness |
| (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness |
| (noun) a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare | - |
| (noun) a state of declining economic condition | - |
| (noun) poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) | Synonyms: unfitness |
| (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: balminess |
| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
|---|
| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
|---|
| softy | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softie |
|---|
| sogginess | (noun) a heavy wetness | - |
|---|
| soggy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: doughy |
|---|
| (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, torpid |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| soh | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, sol |
|---|
| soigne | (adjective) polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance | Synonyms: soignee |
|---|
| soignee | (adjective) polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance | Synonyms: soigne |
|---|
| soil | (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: territory |
|---|
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, land |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: dirt |
| (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime |
| soiled | (adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: dirty, unclean |
|---|
| soiling | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soilure |
|---|
| soilure | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soiling |
|---|
| soiree | (noun) a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) | - |
|---|
| soja | (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant |
|---|
| sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
|---|
| (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
|---|
| sokha | (noun) a light wooden ard, consisting of two body ards, with their parallel beams forming the two shafts for a single horse-drawn tillage implement with two socket shares. | - |
|---|
| sol | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, soh |
|---|
| (noun) a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid | Synonyms: colloidal solution, colloidal suspension |
| solace | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, consolation |
|---|
| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solacement |
| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solacement |
| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe |
| solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
|---|
| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
| solan | (noun) very large white gannet with black wing tips | Synonyms: solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana |
|---|
| solanaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) | - |
|---|
| solar | (adjective) relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun | - |
|---|
| solarisation | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarization |
|---|
| solarise | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarize, sun |
|---|
| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarize |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarize |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarize |
| solarium | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom |
|---|
| solarization | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarisation |
|---|
| solarize | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, sun |
|---|
| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarise |
| sold | (adjective) disposed of to a purchaser | - |
|---|
| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
|---|
| (verb) join or fuse with solder | - |
| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
|---|
| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
|---|
| soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
|---|
| (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
| (verb) serve as a soldier in the military | - |
| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
|---|
| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
|---|
| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
|---|
| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
|---|
| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
|---|
| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
|---|
| sole | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, solitary |
|---|
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: exclusive |
| (noun) right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European | - |
| (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | - |
| (noun) the underside of the foot | - |
| (noun) lean flesh of any of several flatfish | Synonyms: fillet of sole |
| (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: resole |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
|---|
| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
|---|
| soled | (adjective) having a sole or soles especially as specified; used in combination | - |
|---|
| soleless | (adjective) having no sole | - |
|---|
| solely | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, entirely, exclusively, only |
|---|
| solemn | (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, sober |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, sincere |
| solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
|---|
| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
|---|
| solemnise | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnize |
|---|
| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnize |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnize |
| solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
|---|
| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
|---|
| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
|---|
| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |
| solemnly | (adverb) in a grave and sedate manner | - |
|---|
| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
|---|
| solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
|---|
| soleus | (noun) a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | Synonyms: soleus muscle |
|---|
| solfa | (noun) a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti | Synonyms: tonic solfa |
|---|
| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
|---|
| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| solfeggio | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfege |
|---|
| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solmization |
| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
|---|
| solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
|---|
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
| (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
| (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
|---|
| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
|---|
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
|---|
| solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
|---|
| (adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
| solicitously | (adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner | - |
|---|
| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
|---|
| solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
|---|
| solid | (adjective) of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous | - |
|---|
| (adjective) entirely of one substance with no holes inside | - |
| (adjective) having length, breadth and thickness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by good substantial quality | - |
| (adjective) not soft or yielding to pressure | Synonyms: firm |
| (adjective) of one substance or character throughout | - |
| (adjective) impenetrable for the eye | - |
| (adjective) meriting respect or esteem | Synonyms: upstanding |
| (adjective) of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial | - |
| (adjective) financially dependable | - |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: strong, substantial |
| (adjective) uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks | - |
| (adjective) acting together as a single undiversified whole | Synonyms: unanimous, whole |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, square, substantial |
| (adjective) of the same color throughout | Synonyms: self-colored, self-coloured |
| (noun) a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid state, solidness |
| (noun) matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| solidarity | (noun) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | - |
|---|
| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
|---|
| solidified | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated |
|---|
| solidify | (verb) become solid | - |
|---|
| (verb) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify | - |
| solidifying | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidification |
|---|
| solidity | (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidness |
|---|
| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidness |
| (noun) state of having the interior filled with matter | - |
| solidly | (adverb) with strength and soundness | - |
|---|
| (adverb) as an undiversified whole | - |
| solidness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: substantiality, substantialness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid, solid state |
| solidus | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, stroke, virgule |
|---|
| (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, byzant |
| soliloquise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquize |
|---|
| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
|---|
| soliloquy | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: monologue |
|---|
| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | - |
| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
|---|
| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
|---|
| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| solitarily | (adverb) in solitude | - |
|---|
| solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
|---|
| solitude | (noun) a solitary place | - |
|---|
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: purdah |
| (noun) the state or situation of being alone | - |