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soft touch

soft touch

1 3.7
A gentle way of touching or handling people and objects
  • noun
translation icon : toque suave
  • And as you can see here, there are a couple of little strips of, well, I guess not strips, but a little bit of soft touch plastic.

Examples

  • How cool got no idea what it says, but best pens and then these ones are a little bit more cutesy soft touch, clicky.

  • Anything that I'm not going to touch too much, I like to see the soft touch finish on because it can wear out.

  • It adds, you know, a really nice soft touch in the center.

  • The box has this really nice soft touch material making for a pleasant unboxing experience and if anyone would know that it would.

  • It's like this silicone style of band, very soft touch in black and the way the Clas works as you can see through here and then through the loop.

  • Now the newer, the newer Sensei with the MLG branding on it actually brings back that soft touch finish and I think that is a very, very important thing.

  • Oh my gosh, and you know the style of the fountain, but there's still a lot of, you know, fluff back in there that adds that soft touch around the stones.

  • The touch, it's got a slight soft touch finish and there's a version with carbon fiber on the outside lid as well that's also pretty soft touch feeling, but that looks super hot.

  • Because the actuators have such good compliance, miniature robots with a soft touch and no conventional links can be created using these actuators.

  • The artist's soft touch when painting delicate flowers made the artwork truly captivating.

Synonyms

tenderness
vssoft touch
41 3.4

A gentle caring feeling of love and concern for someone

is an outward considerate approach rather than an inner feeling
gentleness
vssoft touch
19 1.3

A kind, calm way of treating people or animals

is a considerate approach used in contact and in dealing with people
stroke
vssoft touch
12 2.5

A gentle touch or caress with the hand

is the general manner applied in many interactions, not only caressing
light touch
vssoft touch
4 3.9

A gentle, brief contact made with little force

is a sustained considerate approach used in contact and dealings
softness
vssoft touch
3 1.8

A gentle, kind way of acting toward others

is an approach that often includes gentle physical contact
mildness
vssoft touch
1 3.3

A gentle, calm way of treating people

is specifically an attentive, considerate way of contacting or dealing
gentle stroke
vssoft touch
3.1

A soft light touch to comfort a person or animal

is a broader interpersonal approach beyond a single comforting contact
delicateness
vssoft touch
5.3

Careful, gentle way of dealing with people or difficult situations

is more about an overall manner of contact and consideration

Antonyms

brutality
  • Offensive
187 5.6

Very cruel and violent actions that hurt people

harshness
6 4.1

Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm

How Gentle

tender
110 1.6
soft touch
1 3.7
rough
  • Informal
2.3

Surface Forms

soft touch singular
soft touches plural

Morphology

soft + touch

The meaning 'a gentle or considerate approach' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'soft' (gentle) with 'touch' (manner of contact or handling). This straightforward adjectival + noun composition follows normal English semantics and is cross-linguistically intuitive, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Soft touch comes from the literal idea of a gentle hand: something soft to the touch calms and does not hurt, so the phrase now means 'a gentle or considerate approach'.