softball

noun

1. 1

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

   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.

2. 2

   The ball used to play the sport.

3. 3

   A question designed to be easy to answer.

   a softball interview

   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.

   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.

Forms

plural

softballs