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softship

softship noun: a situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.

Noun

softship (countable and uncountable, plural softships)

  1. (humorous, often, rare) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.
    • In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]1877, William Mattieu Williams, Through Norway with ladies - Page 2
    • Until you have mended a tire on a muddy road at dusk and turned a crank for five reels of the most deadly movies, you have an entirely misleading notion as to the softships of relief work. I can think of no work of theirs more satisfying to the worker herself […]1920, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 212 - Page 774

Examples of softship in a sentence

  • Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.1943, Raymond Tift Fuller, Now that We Have to Walk: Exploring the Out-of-doors - Page 29:
  • […] hardships he so gracefully endured amid numbered leave-takings from the softship of his father's customized cabin were notable and should be recorded for future invalids. real and imaginary.2012, Bruce Wagner, I'll Let You Go: A Novel - Page 239:

Antonyms of softship

Forms of softship

pluralsoftships

Origin of softship

From soft + -ship, modelled after hardship.

Questions about softship

What does softship mean?
Softship means a situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.
How do you use softship in a sentence?
Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.
What part of speech is softship?
Softship is a noun.
What is the plural of softship?
The plural of softship is softships.

Words near softship in the dictionary

  1. softscaping
  2. softshell
  3. softshell turtle
  4. softshell turtles
  5. softshells
  6. softship
  7. softships
  8. softshoe
  9. softsoap
  10. softsoaped
  11. softsoaping

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