soft-soap

1. 1.

   persuade someone through flattery

   Broaderwheedle
2. 2.

   use flattering talk on somebody

   Broaderflatter

Questions about soft-soap

What does soft-soap mean?

soft-soap means "persuade someone through flattery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soft-soap?

soft-soap has 3 syllables: soft--so-ap. The stress falls on "soft-".

Is soft-soap a common word?

soft-soap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.