soft touch

Questions about soft touch

What does soft touch mean?

soft touch means "a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of".

What is another word for soft touch?

Close synonyms include chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soft touch a common word?

soft touch 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.