ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Softship

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Softship is a noun meaning (rare, often humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.

Meaning

(rare, often humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.

Example Sentences

Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.
[…] 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. Exactly who was part of this airborne sodality?
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 […]
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 […]

Word Forms

Antonyms for softship

Common opposites include hardship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ease, sweetheartship, goodship, seel, smooth, goodyship.

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