Softshell [adjective]
Definition of Softshell:
permissive
Synonyms of Softshell:
● Sympathetic
● Indulgent
● Compassionate
● Tolerant
● Benign
● Compliant
● Forgiving
● Amiable
● Charitable
● Clement
● Complaisant
● Condoning
● Easy
● Easygoing
● Emollient
● Forbearing
● Gentle
● Good-natured
● Kind
● Kindly
● Loving
● Merciful
● Mild
● Obliging
● Permitting
● Soft
● Softhearted
● Sparing
● Tender
● Yielding
● Benignant
● Allowing
● Assuasive
● Being big
● Excusing
● Favoring
● Going easy on
● Humoring
● Letting
● Live with
● Pampering
● Spoiling
Opposite/Antonyms of Softshell:
● Severe
● Restrictive
● Limiting
● Hard
● Rigorous
● Intolerant
● Hateful
● Merciless
Sentence/Example of Softshell:
He comes at me wide open, with a guard like a soft-shell crab.
"He is recommending some soft-shell crabs," said the clever man.
There is a weir in the river, in the deep waters of which it is said there are a very great number of soft-shell tortoises.
We have tried many varieties of the soft-shell without success.
It is partial to the “soft-shell” crabs and small tortoises common in the American waters.
The soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, has been an important article of food, but the valves are not serviceable in the arts.
Eels and soft-shell turtles, though occasionally caught, were not plentiful in 1806.
There are three distinct kinds of English Walnuts—hard-shell, soft-shell and paper-shell, the soft-shell being the best.
Put the required number of small, soft-shell clams into a saucepan, and bring to a boil, in their own liquor.
What she had seen more particularly was an awful-looking crimson and grey spider as big as a soft-shell crab.