softly

Adverb

Meaning

In a soft manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

piano quietly lightly gently easily moderately weakly finely silently mildly kindly affectionately calmly politely faintly

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Antonyms

loudly forte hard roughly strictly badly

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Phrases with the word

speak softly speaking softly sing softly says softly softly, softly, catchee monkey softly, softly caught the monkey

Examples

Fair and softly goes far. Miguel de Cervantes

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. James Russell Lowell

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there. John Dryden

One cannot ski so softly that the tracks cannot be seen. Finnish Proverb

Fair and softly goes far in a day. American Proverb

Go softly at bad bits of road. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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