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softcover

softcover adjective: having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.

Adjective

softcover (not comparable)

  1. Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
    • It gives more emphasis to the literary novels and short-story collections reviewed so often in our pages (and sometimes published only in softcover).2007 September 23, The Editors, “Up Front”, in New York Times

Noun

softcover (plural softcovers)

  1. A book having such covers.

Synonyms of softcover

Forms of softcover

Adjective
alternative formsc
Noun
pluralsoftcovers

Origin of softcover

From soft + cover.

Questions about softcover

What does softcover mean?
Softcover means having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
What part of speech is softcover?
Softcover can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near softcover in the dictionary

  1. softcoding
  2. softcopies
  3. softcopy
  4. softcore
  5. softcore pornography
  6. softcover
  7. softcovered
  8. softcovers
  9. softdelete
  10. softdrink
  11. softdrinks

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