Difference between Soft and Fricative

What is the difference between Soft and Fricative?

Soft as an adjective is giving way under pressure. while Fricative as an adjective is produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

Soft

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Giving way under pressure. Smooth and flexible. Gentle. Having an acute angle. Quiet. voiced, sonant voiceless palatalized Lacking 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: Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

Fricative

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English F and S are fricatives.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

We hope you now know whether to use Soft or Fricative in your sentence.

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