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| Main Entry: | changing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeful |
| Synonyms: | changeable, dynamic, growing, inconstant, irresolute, mobile, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, wavering, altering, alternating, developing, modifying |
| Antonyms: | fixed, stable, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become different |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, alternate, commute, convert, diminish, diverge, diversify, evolve, fluctuate, merge, metamorphose, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, naturalize, redo, reduce, reform, regenerate, remodel, renovate, reorganize, replace, resolve, revolutionize, shape, shift, substitute, temper, transform, translate, transpose, turn, vacillate, vary, veer, warp, make innovations, make over, recondition, remake, restyle, tamper with, transfigure, transmute |
| Antonyms: | continue, hold, keep, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | substitute, replace |
| Synonyms: | alternate, barter, convert, displace, exchange, interchange, invert, remove, reverse, shift, supplant, swap, trade, transmit, transpose, switch around |
| Main Entry: | dynamic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vital |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, changing, charismatic, compelling, driving, effective, electric, energetic, enterprising, forceful, forcible, go-ahead*, influential, intense, lively, lusty, magnetic, peppy*, potent, powerful, productive, progressive, strenuous, vehement, vigorous, zippy*, activating, coming on strong, energizing, go-getter, go-getting, highpowered, hyped-up, play for keeps, play hard ball, red-blooded*, vitalizing |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irresolute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indecisive |
| Synonyms: | changing, doubtful, doubting, fearful, fickle, halfhearted*, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, shaky, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, weak, wishy-washy*, wobbly, faltering, fluctuating, hot-and-cold, on-the-fence, waffling, weak-kneed, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | definite, determined, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, unyielding, willful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, errant, gypsy, immigrant, impermanent, itinerant, mobile, nomad, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging, roving, temporary, tramp, transient, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, drifting, emigrating, immigrating, migrative, migratorial, on the move, passing over, passing through, seasonal, shifting, transmigratory |
| Antonyms: | staying |
| Main Entry: | unresolved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain; not settled |
| Synonyms: | changing, doubtful, hesitant, hesitating, incomplete, indecisive, irresolute, moot, pending, unanswered, undecided, undetermined, unfinished, unsettled, up in the air, vacillating, vague, betwixt and between, faltering, hot and cold, open to question, problematical, pussyfooting, unconcluded, unsolved, waffling |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, settled, sure, resolved, solved |
| Main Entry: | various |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miscellaneous, differing |
| Synonyms: | assorted, changeable, changing, different, discrete, disparate, distinct, distinctive, diverse, heterogeneous, individual, legion, manifold, many, multifarious, multitudinous, numerous, peculiar, populous, separate, several, sundry, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, all manner of, diversified, many-sided, multitudinal, omnifarious, unalike |
| Notes: | varied is the past tense of vary and also an adjective meaning 'characterized by variety,' while various means 'distinct, diverse' or 'of many different kinds' |
| Antonyms: | individual, same, similar, uniform |
| Main Entry: | varying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | variable |
| Synonyms: | changeable, changing, deviating, flexible, inconstant, irregular, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, wavering, alternating, differing, fluctuating, shifting, waffling |
| Main Entry: | wavering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillant |
| Synonyms: | changing, vacillating, variable, fluctuating, oscillating, waffling |
| Main Entry: | correction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjustment; fixing |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amendment, changing, emendation, improvement, mending, modification, redress, remodeling, repair, reparation, amelioration, amending, editing, indemnification, rectification, reexamination, rereading, revisal, revising, righting |
| Antonyms: | blunder, goof, mistake |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, agitation, change, changing, direction, drift, flow, fluctuation, flux, gesture, high sign*, inclination, locomotion, mobility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering, ambulation, body English, dynamics, full swing, gesticulation, kinetics, motility |
| Antonyms: | repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness, immobility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
| Synonyms: | act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, evolution, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, move, moving, operation, passage, progress, progression, roaming, shift, stir, stirring, transit, undertaking, velocity, wandering, displacement, dynamism, evolving, journeying, motility, movableness, operativeness, regression, shifting, steps, transferal, translating, transplanting, voyaging |
| Antonyms: | cessation, halt, inaction, pause, stoppage, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | unsettled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothered, upset |
| Synonyms: | active, agitated, antsy*, anxious, busy, changeable, changing, complex, complicated, confused, disorderly, disturbed, explosive, fidgety, fluid, inconstant, insecure, mobile, mutable, on edge*, perilous, perturbed, precarious, restive, restless, shaken, shaky, tense, thrown, ticklish, troubled, unbalanced, uncertain, uneasy, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, variable, wavering, wobbling, changeful, flustered, kinetic, rattled, shifting, shook up, unnerved, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | content, happy, settled, calmed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mobile |
| Synonyms: | changing, flying, jumping, movable, nomadic, portable, roaming, roving, running, unstable, unsteady, walking, advancing, climbing, evolving, going, motile, progressing, shifting, traversing, unfixed, unsteadfast |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immobile, permanent, stationary, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | adapt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjust to a different situation or condition |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, accommodate, accustom, alter, change, comply, conform, familiarize, fashion, fit, get used to, habituate, harmonize, make, match, modify, prepare, qualify, readjust, reconcile, remodel, revise, shape, square, suit, tailor, come around, get act together, grow used to, play the game, roll with punches, shape up |
| Antonyms: | disarrange, dislocate, disorder, disturb, unfit |
| Main Entry: | affect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence, affect emotionally |
| Synonyms: | act on, alter, change, disturb, impinge, impress, induce, influence, inspire, interest, involve, modify, move, overcome, perturb, prevail, regard, relate, stir, sway, touch, transform, upset |
| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | adapt, adjust, amend, change, convert, cook, develop, diversify, doctor, metamorphose, modify, mutate, reconstruct, reform, remodel, renovate, revamp, revise, shift, transform, turn, vary, correct mid-course, dial back, fine tune, make different, phony up, recalibrate, recast, refashion, reshape, transmute |
| Antonyms: | continue, fix, keep, maintain, preserve, remain, retain, sustain, let stand |
| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize animal |
| Synonyms: | castrate, change, emasculate, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, caponize, desexualize, spay, unsex |
| Main Entry: | alternate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take turns, change back and forth |
| Synonyms: | alter, blow hot and cold*, change, exchange, fluctuate, follow, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally*, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, act reciprocally, come and go, fill in for, follow in turn, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | continue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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