"softmaxx" meaning in English

See softmaxx in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-softmaxx.wav Forms: softmaxxes [present, singular, third-person], softmaxxing [participle, present], softmaxxed [participle, past], softmaxxed [past]
Etymology: From soft + -maxx. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|soft|maxx}} soft + -maxx Head templates: {{en-verb}} softmaxx (third-person singular simple present softmaxxes, present participle softmaxxing, simple past and past participle softmaxxed)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing. Wikipedia link: Looksmaxxing#"Softmaxxing" Tags: intransitive, transitive

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "soft",
        "3": "maxx"
      },
      "expansion": "soft + -maxx",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From soft + -maxx.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "softmaxxes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "softmaxx (third-person singular simple present softmaxxes, present participle softmaxxing, simple past and past participle softmaxxed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -maxx",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 31, “‘Looksmaxxing’ is the disturbing TikTok trend turning young men into incels”, in The Conversation:",
          "text": "It begins with “softmaxxing”. This includes basic hygiene such as teeth brushing and whitening, removal of face and body hair, and “mewing” (tongue exercises that supposedly help tone facial muscles).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing."
      ],
      "id": "en-softmaxx-en-verb-1NyRcStT",
      "links": [
        [
          "incel",
          "incel"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "looksmaxx",
          "looksmaxx"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "incel slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Looksmaxxing#\"Softmaxxing\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-softmaxx.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "softmaxx"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "soft",
        "3": "maxx"
      },
      "expansion": "soft + -maxx",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From soft + -maxx.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "softmaxxes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softmaxxed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "softmaxx (third-person singular simple present softmaxxes, present participle softmaxxing, simple past and past participle softmaxxed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English incel slang",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -maxx",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 31, “‘Looksmaxxing’ is the disturbing TikTok trend turning young men into incels”, in The Conversation:",
          "text": "It begins with “softmaxxing”. This includes basic hygiene such as teeth brushing and whitening, removal of face and body hair, and “mewing” (tongue exercises that supposedly help tone facial muscles).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "incel",
          "incel"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "looksmaxx",
          "looksmaxx"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "incel slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Looksmaxxing#\"Softmaxxing\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-softmaxx.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-softmaxx.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "softmaxx"
}

Download raw JSONL data for softmaxx meaning in English (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.