Muted
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To silence, to make quiet.
Example sentence: The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
Soft
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Giving way under pressure.Smooth and flexible.Gentle.Having an acute angle.Quiet.voiced, sonantvoicelesspalatalizedLacking strength or resolve, wimpy.Low in dissolved calcium compounds.(Northern British, colloquial) Foolish.Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (c.f. hard)
Example sentence: A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.