soft-focus
Hazy, flattering blur
Soft-focus describes an image deliberately made slightly blurry, with diffused edges and a dreamy quality.
In photography and film, soft-focus effects romanticize subjects, smoothing imperfections: soft-focus portraits, a soft-focus lens.
Figuratively, soft-focus means vague or lacking hard detail: The candidate offered only soft-focus promises.
Light-focusing curved glass
- blurLack of sharpness
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- filterPorous separation device
- hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
glamour · portrait · dreamy · gauze · vignette · bokeh · aperture · glow
Mind's retention capacity
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- romanticizedMade more appealing than reality
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- idealizedMade to seem perfect
sepia · reminiscence · yearning · bittersweet · misty-eyed · rosy · bygone · reverie
Unclear, ill-defined
- ambiguousHaving multiple interpretations
- unclearNot easily understood
- fuzzySoft and unclear
- impreciseLacking exactness or accuracy
noncommittal · indirect · euphemistic · evasive · glossing · sanitized · whitewashed · sugarcoated
lens
Light-focusing curved glass
haze · glamour · portrait · dreamy · gauze · vignette · bokeh · aperture · glow · cinematography
memory
Mind's retention capacity
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- romanticizedMade more appealing than reality
- wistfulSadly longing for something
idealized · sepia · reminiscence · yearning · bittersweet · misty-eyed · rosy · bygone · reverie · longing
vague
Unclear, ill-defined
imprecise · noncommittal · indirect · euphemistic · evasive · glossing · sanitized · whitewashed · sugarcoated · blurred
- Pictorialismplatinum print, painterly, impressionistic, photogravure, tonalism
soft-focussharp
Fine-edged, or astute
crisp · in focus · high-definition · razor-sharp · pin-sharp
soft-focusharsh
Unpleasantly severe or rough
unflattering · warts-and-all · stark · unsparing · raw
soft-focuslaser-focused
Extremely concentrated attention
precise · rigorous · hard-nosed · sharp-eyed · unflinching
soft, focus, softer, softest, softly, soften, softens, softened, softening