softball

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The ball used to play the sport.
3. (countable, uncountable)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.”