Softball

Quick meaning: Softball is a noun meaning (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.

Meaning

(sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.

More Meanings

1. (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
2. (by analogy, also attibutive) A question designed to be easy to answer.

Example Sentences

a softball interview

This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.

He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.

Each man got his share of softballs on Friday night. But for 90 minutes in a dressed-up basketball arena at Washington University, the two candidates were also forced to address the kind of questions they get rarely if ever on the campaign trail: from voters who doubted them and maybe did not even like them very much.

Word Forms

• softballs

Synonyms for softball

Depending on context, synonyms include kittenball.

Antonyms for softball

Common opposites include hardball.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hardball, baseball, bullet, ball, qualification, easy.

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