softbox

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noun

A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.

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Meanings

nounsoftbox (plural softboxes)

plural softboxes

  1. artsA photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.

    Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).

    2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times

Origin

From soft + box.

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APA

softbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/softbox

MLA

“softbox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/softbox. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “softbox,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/softbox.

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