softball
/sˈɔftbˌɔl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.66 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
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Synonyms
diamond ball
indoor baseball
kittenball
mush ball
playground ball
pumpkin ball
town ball
softball game