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softened Meaning in Korean (softened ์˜์–ด ๋œป)

verb๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค
adjective๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„, ์™„ํ™”๋œ
๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„ in English:softened
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softened์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋œป์€ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค, ์™„ํ™”๋œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋œ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋ปฃ๋ปฃํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋œ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค.)

Definitions of Softened

  1. 1
    verb
    ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค

    To make something less hard, firm, or rigid, or to become less hard or firm over time.

    ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋œ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋ปฃ๋ปฃํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋œ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค.

  2. 2
    adjective
    ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„, ์™„ํ™”๋œ

    Describing something that has been made or has become less hard, firm, or severe in nature.

    ๋œ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด ๋œ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•จ.

Example Sentences

โ€œThe artist softened the edges of the painting to create a dreamier effect.โ€

๊ทธ ํ™”๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋” ๋ชฝํ™˜์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œHer tone softened when she realized her mistake.โ€

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋‹ซ์ž ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค.

โ€œThe softened light of the evening made the garden look magical.โ€

์ €๋…์˜ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„ ๋น›์€ ์ •์›์„ ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Synonyms (์œ ์˜์–ด)

In English:

easedmellowedsubdued

Antonyms (๋ฐ˜์˜์–ด)

In English:

hardenedintensifiedstiffened

Inflected Word Forms

infinitivesoften
third person singularsoftens
present participlesoftening
nounsoftness
adjectivesoft

Phrases & Idiomatic Expressions

soften the blowidiom

To make an unpleasant or difficult situation less severe or painful.

soften upphrasal_verb

To make someone less resistant or more willing to cooperate, often through gentle persuasion or treatment.

Softened Meaning in Korean (๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„, ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค) | DictBridge Dictionary