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softmaxx

softmaxx verb: to act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing.

Verb

softmaxx (third-person singular simple present softmaxxes, present participle softmaxxing, simple past and past participle softmaxxed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing.
    • A September video from the TikTok user syrianpsycho, who promotes softmaxxing to his 1.2 million followers, bemoans the experience of going to restaurant while “mewing” (a technique that involves placing the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which Looksmaxxers believe makes the jaw grow squarer and...2023 November 6, Joseph Bernstein, “Young Men Seek Answers to an Age-Old Question: How to Be Hot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2024
    • It begins with “softmaxxing”. This includes basic hygiene such as teeth brushing and whitening, removal of face and body hair, and “mewing” (tongue exercises that supposedly help tone facial muscles).2024 January 31, “‘Looksmaxxing’ is the disturbing TikTok trend turning young men into incels”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024

Forms of softmaxx

third-person singular presentsoftmaxxes
present participlesoftmaxxing
past participlesoftmaxxed
pastsoftmaxxed

Origin of softmaxx

From soft + -maxx.

Questions about softmaxx

What does softmaxx mean?
Softmaxx means to act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing.
What part of speech is softmaxx?
Softmaxx is a verb.
What is the past tense of softmaxx?
The past tense of softmaxx is softmaxxed.

Words near softmaxx in the dictionary

  1. softmask
  2. softmasked
  3. softmasking
  4. softmasks
  5. softmax
  6. softmaxx
  7. softmaxxed
  8. softmaxxes
  9. softmaxxing
  10. softminded
  11. softmindedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: softmaxx (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.

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