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Answer for the clue "Softest (of sound) ", 8 letters:
quietest

Word definitions for quietest in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: quiet )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quiet \Qui"et\, a. [Compar. Quieter ; superl. Quietest .] [L. quietus, p. p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While , and cf. Coy , a., Quiesce , Quietus , Quit , a., Quite , Requiem .] In a state of rest ...

Usage examples of quietest.

We'd pick up one of their quietest boats, even an Akula or a Sierra, after a while .

This class of SSBN's was by far the quietest afloat, and it would be a freak of nature for an unfriendly submarine to hear her before they had already been identified.

Those boomers are about the quietest things afloat, and they don't do anything to make it any easier to hear them.

But he was definitely one of the nicest, quietest fellas you'd ever want to meet.

That is why she lives here in the quietest of the Quiet Zones in a keep built without the least magic.

Now he should be stuck sharpening knives and shining glasses in the quietest house in England.

I looked at him through the comer of my eye and said in the quietest of voices, "I thought you'd call me from Chicago…" I let my voice trail off, feeling suddenly rather silly for even mentioning it.

And the water just kept gurgling into that field, sending ants scurrying for their lives, while Joe puffed a cigarette, on one of the quietest lavender mornings of this particular spring.