Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun soft_option

1 sense of soft option

Sense 1
soft option -- (an easier alternative; "the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade")
       => option, alternative, choice -- (one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse")