soft hyphen
noun
a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
Words nearby soft hyphen
soft fruit,
soft furnishings,
soft goods,
soft ground,
soft hail,
soft hyphen,
soft in the head,
soft iron,
soft job,
soft launch,
soft lens
British Dictionary definitions for soft hyphen
soft hyphen
noun
a hyphen, used in word processing to divide a word, which prints only when it appears at the end of a line
Also called: optional hyphen