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/sˈɔftli/ /sˈɔfli/ Listen

Softly

adverb

With low volume. Synonym: quietly. "She spoke quietly to the child" , "The radio was playing softly"

In a manner that is pleasing to the senses.

With little weight or force. Synonyms: gently, lightly.

Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly. Synonym: piano.

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"Softly" Quotes from Famous Books

... talked to it, wept and begged the dead man to awake. The peasants arranged a bier. They wished to carry the peasant's body down to his house. They had respect for the dead and spoke softly in his presence. When they lifted him up on the bier, Tord rose, shook the hair back from his face, and said with a voice which ...

— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

... sweet and musical voices. Theirs are the quaint and simple lullaby songs of childhood. The white-throat has a timid, tremulous strain, that issues from the low bushes or from behind the fence, where its cradle is hid. The song sparrow modulates its simple ditty as softly as the lining of its own nest. The vesper sparrow has only peace and gentleness in ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

... fearful silence and darkness of that early hour, with stilled breath and heart beating so loudly you thought it would awaken everyone in the house, You softly opened the door—poked your arm through—felt around where the stocking ought to be, but with a great sinking in your heart when you didn't find it the first time—and finally your chubby fist clutched the misshapen, lumpy, bulging fabric that ...

— The Long Ago • Jacob William Wright

... of his room three doors beyond, and as the hall was almost deserted about this hour, so many boys being in recitation, he had nothing to do but tiptoe down to Joel's room and go softly in. ...

— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney

... your lecture, we will say, in some paper taken by the people in your kitchen. Your servants get saucy and negligent. If their newspaper calls you names, they need not be so particular about shutting doors softly or boiling potatoes. So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies. Now you think ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

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