SOFT-SPOKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soft-spoken mean? 

• SOFT-SPOKEN (adjective)
  The adjective SOFT-SPOKEN has 1 sense:

1. having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh

  Familiarity information: SOFT-SPOKEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOFT-SPOKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh

Context example:

she was always soft-spoken

Similar:

soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)

 Context examples 

It is not to be thought that a troop of bowmen, with the wine buzzing in their ears, will be as soft-spoken as so many young clerks in an orchard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He sensed the evil in him, and feared the extended hand and the attempts at soft-spoken speech.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Look at that hunter iv mine, Horner. ‘Jock’ Horner they call him, so quiet-like an’ easy-goin’, soft-spoken as a girl, till ye’d think butter wouldn’t melt in the mouth iv him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had feared that in gaining our debonair young man-at-arms we had lost our soft-spoken clerk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Johnson turned obediently to the door, at the same time, over the cook’s shoulder, favouring me with an amazingly solemn and portentous wink as though to emphasize his interrupted remark and the need for me to be soft-spoken with the captain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)