Word.ws English Dictionary

soft-liners

soft-liners is the plural of soft-liner.

Meaning of soft-liner

Noun

soft-liner (plural soft-liners)

  1. (rare) A person who holds a moderate position and may be willing to compromise, as opposed to a hard-liner.
    • At this node the soft-liners must decide whether to do nothing and stick with the status quo or to open up the political regime.2012, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek Golder, Principles of Comparative Politics, page 299

Questions about soft-liners

What is soft-liners the plural of?
Soft-liners is the plural of soft-liner.

Words near soft-liners in the dictionary

  1. soft-launched
  2. soft-launches
  3. soft-launching
  4. soft-like
  5. soft-liner
  6. soft-liners
  7. soft-long
  8. soft-minded
  9. soft-mindedly
  10. soft-mindedness
  11. soft-nose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-liners (page history and authors); soft-liner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “soft-liners.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/soft-liners. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.