Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Soft; easy; gentle; slow.
- In a soft manner. Without force or violence; gently: as, he softly pressed my hand.
- Gently; slowly; calmly; quietly; hence, at an easy pace: as, to lay a thing down softly.
- Mildly; tenderly.
- Slackly; carelessly.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a soft manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with low volume
- adv. used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly
- adv. in a manner that is pleasing to the senses
- adv. with little weight or force
Etymologies
- From Middle English softely, softeliche, equivalent to soft + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Finally he did, covering her body with his own, saying her name softly as he slipped inside her.”
“She called out my name softly as if I could have missed seeing her standing there.”
“Matt heard his name softly spoken, and he turned to find Sara and Zack beside him.”
“She dropped the title softly down to the water below, and started at the echo of her own trembling voice.”
“Murmuring his name softly, she shifted onto her back, encouraging Max to slide up over her, parting her lips to welcome his kisses.”
“Patch spoke my name softly, yet with every intention of getting what he wanted.”
“I was terrified of surprising him, so I simply called his name softly.”
“I turned the knob and opened it just a crack, peeking in and calling his name softly.”
“She repeated the word softly, rolling its meaning around in her mind like a lone marble.”
“Brigitte said his name softly, coming up behind him and wrapping her arms about his waist.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘softly’.
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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Miscellany
avid, shard, begone, gibes, romantic, inspiration, dashing, affliction, daring, elocution, hegemony, supercalifragilis... and 97 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Tunie: Kitty
Traditional; arranged by the Pogues, copyright 1984.
Oh Kitty, My Darling, remember
That the doom will be mine if I stay
'Tis far better to part, though it's hard to
...goodbye, god guard you, good night, cry, mountain, a stor, police, mo mhuirnín, lips, pale, kissed, softly and 4 more...
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VacuolateTuna's Words
paneity, bucolic, cockalorum, ichor, avuncular, brachycubia, colpocoquette, ethereal, cachinnation, tibia, obsequious, gymnopaedia and 40 more...
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belletrist's Words
belletrist, descend, superstructure, justice, epistemology, ethics, love, fuck, paradise, blasphemy, softly, death and 73 more...
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Lucy.in.the.Sky's list
This is merely one of many places my favourite words are kept.
inexorable, fragile, docile, softly, hush, playful, words, wish, emollient, languor, surreptitious, sempiternal and 19 more...
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themacmaven's Words
ouah-ouah, shiny, squee, wibble, wah, jeezum crow, persnickety, blog, onomatopoeia, tout s'arrangera, gaucher, oscillate and 25 more...
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The Karamazov Bros blab
Dostoevsky's alternatives for 'said' and spruce-ilious adverbs
from the Pevear/Volokhonsky translationdrawl, babble, ask, added, remark, inform, exclaim, call, cry, inquire, shout, drone and 56 more...
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sleepythief's favorite words:
susurrate, dovecote, apiary, grove, halcyon, obfuscate, prairie, prithee, inamorata, catacombs, pari passu, stravage and 30 more...
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