Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive, ironic, slang, stative)To be mediocre or not particularly excellent.

    Goes kinda soft tbh.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, soft. literally, “to become soft”.

    My penis usually goes soft midsex.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tokyo landlords are in a panic because the real estate market went soft.

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  2. Could I be going soft in the head? I forget things so easily these days.

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  3. I don't want to use aging as an excuse to go soft in the middle.

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  4. Please, go softer!

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Origin

An ironic inversion of go hard.

An ironic inversion of go hard.

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Forms

goes soft, going soft, went soft, gone soft
Base formgo soft · to go soft
3rd person singulargoes soft
Present participlegoing soft
Past simplewent soft
Past participlegone soft

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygo soft
he, she, itgoes soft

Past simpleLesson

all personswent soft

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gone soft
he, she, ithas gone soft

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill go soft

Antonyms

1 antonyms
go hard

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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