new 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”

   Synonymsballgame

   Broadersituation

Questions about new ballgame

What does new ballgame mean?

new ballgame means "a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation".

What is another word for new ballgame?

Close synonyms include ballgame. 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 new ballgame a common word?

new ballgame is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.