| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class III. Words Relating to Matter | | Section II. Inorganic Matter | | 1. Solid Matter |
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| 324. Softness. |
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| NOUN: | SOFTNESS, pliableness &c. adj.; flexibility; pliancy, pliability; sequacity [obs. in this sense], malleability, ductility, ductibility, tractability, tractility, extensibility, extendibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, flabbiness, flocculence; mollescence, mollification; softening &c. v.
[COMPARISONS] clay, alumina, argil; wax, putty, butter, dough, pudding; cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, eider down, padding, wadding.
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| VERB: | SOFTEN; render soft &c. adj.; mollify, mellow, milden, tender [rare], gentle [rare], dulcify; relax, temper; mash, knead, massage, squash [colloq.].
BEND, yield, relent, relax, give.
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| ADJECTIVE: | SOFT, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile, ductible [rare], tractile, tractable; malleable, extensile, extensible, lax, sequacious [obs. in this sense], inelastic; aluminous; remollient [obs.], mollient, mollescent, mollitious, mollified.
yielding &c. v.; flabby,| limp, flimsy.
flaccid, flocculent, downy; spongy, œdematous or edematous, medullary, doughy, clayey, argillaceous, mellow.
soft as-butter, - down, - silk, - putty, - a feather bed; yielding as wax; tender as a chicken.
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| QUOTATION: | Smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil’d.—Milton |
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