ballgame

1. 1.

   a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation

   “HDTV looks the same but it's really a whole new ballgame”

   Synonymsnew ballgame

   Broadersituation
2. 2.

   a field game played with a ball (especially baseball)

   Synonymsball game

   Broaderfield game

   Narrowerbaseball

   baseball

Other forms of ballgame

plural

ballgames·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ballgame

What does ballgame mean?

ballgame means "a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ballgame?

ballgame has 2 syllables: ball-game. The stress falls on "game". In IPA it is /bɔlˈɡeɪm/.

What is another word for ballgame?

Close synonyms include new ballgame, ball game. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballgame a common word?

ballgame is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ballgame?

1 word rhymes with ballgame. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.