in a soft way:
She closed the door softly behind her. * 'I missed you,' he said softly. * She stroked his hand softly. * The room was softly lit by a lamp. * a softly tailored suit
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for softly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is softly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, softly is tagged as adverb.
Does softly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — softly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
