"softball" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-softball.wav Forms: softballs [plural]
Etymology: 1926: soft + ball. Compare hardball. Etymology templates: {{com|en|soft|ball}} soft + ball Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} softball (countable and uncountable, plural softballs)
  1. (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Translations (game): softbal (Afrikaans), sagtebal (Afrikaans), со́фтбол (sóftbol) [masculine] (Bulgarian), softbol [masculine] (Catalan), 壘球 (Chinese Mandarin), 垒球 (lěiqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), softbal [neuter] (Dutch), softball (Finnish), softball [masculine] (French), balle-molle [Canada, feminine] (French), Softball [masculine] (German), softball (Hungarian), láimhe [masculine] (Irish), ソフトボール (sofutobōru) (Japanese), 塁球 (ruikyū) (Japanese), 소프트볼 (sopeuteubol) (Korean), softbols [masculine] (Latvian), mažojo [masculine] (Lithuanian), poiuka (Maori), jooł yikalí (Navajo), softball [masculine] (Polish), softball [masculine] (Portuguese), softbol [masculine] (Portuguese), softball [neuter] (Romanian), софтбо́л (softból) [masculine] (Russian), sófbol [masculine] (Spanish), bóng mềm (Vietnamese)
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  2. (sports) The ball used to play the sport. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Translations (ball): softbal [masculine] (Dutch), softball-pallo (Finnish), softball [masculine] (French), softball-labda (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-softball-en-noun-dr1qGeRQ Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'ball': 39 61 0
  3. (by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-softball-en-noun-vb6Cco-K
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: diamond ball, indoor baseball, kittenball, mush ball, playground ball, pumpkin ball, town ball Hypernyms: ball, sport Coordinate_terms: baseball, cricket, hardball, rounders, town ball, towne ball

Inflected forms

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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "softball",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: softball",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: softball"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "softball",
            "3": "balle molle",
            "bor1": "1",
            "clq2": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "French: → softball, → balle molle (calque)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: → softball, → balle molle (calque)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "softball",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: softball",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: softball"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "softball",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: softball",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: softball"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "soft",
        "3": "ball"
      },
      "expansion": "soft + ball",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1926: soft + ball. Compare hardball.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "softballs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "softball (countable and uncountable, plural softballs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "sport"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Andrew Heller, Come Heller High Water, →ISBN, page 55:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ball used to play the sport."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) The ball used to play the sport."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 September 10, James Bennett, “In a Disguised Gym, Softballs and Political Drama”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A question designed to be easy to answer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ],
        [
          "easy",
          "easy"
        ],
        [
          "answer",
          "answer"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by analogy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-softball.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-softball.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-softball.wav.mp3",
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "diamond ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "indoor baseball"
    },
    {
      "word": "kittenball"
    },
    {
      "word": "mush ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "playground ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "pumpkin ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "town ball"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "softbal"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "sagtebal"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sóftbol",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "со́фтбол"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softbol"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "壘球"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lěiqiú",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "垒球"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "softbal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balle-molle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "láimhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sofutobōru",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "ソフトボール"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ruikyū",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "塁球"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sopeuteubol",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "소프트볼"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softbols"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mažojo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "poiuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "jooł yikalí"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softbol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "softból",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "софтбо́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "game",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sófbol"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "game",
      "word": "bóng mềm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ball",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softbal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ball",
      "word": "softball-pallo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ball",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "softball"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ball",
      "word": "softball-labda"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:softball",
    "en:softball (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "softball"
}

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