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soft spoken
adjective as in introverted
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adjective as in reserved
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adjective as in soft-spoken
adjective as in suave
adjective as in self-controlled
Weak matches
- aloof
- backward
- bashful
- cautious
- ceremonious
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- controlled
- conventional
- cool
- demure
- diffident
- distant
- eremitic
- formal
- frigid
- gentle
- icy
- inhibited
- mild
- misanthropic
- modest
- noncommittal
- offish
- peaceful
- placid
- prim
- quiet
- reclusive
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- secretive
- sedate
- self-contained
- self-restrained
- serene
- shy
- soft-spoken
- solitary
- standoffish
- taciturn
- unapproachable
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- undemonstrative
- unresponsive
- withdrawn
adjective as in self-restrained
Weak matches
- aloof
- backward
- bashful
- cautious
- ceremonious
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- controlled
- conventional
- cool
- demure
- diffident
- distant
- eremitic
- formal
- frigid
- gentle
- icy
- inhibited
- mild
- misanthropic
- modest
- noncommittal
- offish
- peaceful
- placid
- prim
- quiet
- reclusive
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- secretive
- sedate
- self-contained
- self-controlled
- serene
- shy
- soft-spoken
- solitary
- standoffish
- taciturn
- unapproachable
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- undemonstrative
- unresponsive
- withdrawn
adjective as in courteous
adjective as in humble
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Example Sentences
I thought he was very intelligent, very gentle, soft-spoken, precise.
Mapei is soft-spoken, but that should not be mistaken for modesty.
In person, Gondry is more Joel than Doc Brown—a fragile, soft-spoken man with a mop of curly brown hair.
As she sips tea in a lounge at the Greenwich Hotel, her soft-spoken, modest style includes a casual acceptance of her advantages.
Under its soft-spoken CEO and Chairman Gary Barber, the studio has emerged from bankruptcy, stronger and nimbler than before.
Gentle as he was and soft-spoken, there was a manly spirit in him, and that always commands respect among boys.
I had feared that in gaining our debonair young man-at-arms we had lost our soft-spoken clerk.
Patseys awful good to us, but he aint fine like an soft spoken.
Soft-spoken and polite, crafty and suspicious, he was pacific by temperament and therefore allowed politics to slumber.
He had dropped back into his old soft-spoken manner, and Tresler felt like hating him for the vileness of the nature he displayed.
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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to soft-spoken, such as: gentle, reserved, close-mouthed, hushed, hushful, and low.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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