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| Main Entry: | modification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | qualification |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, adjustment, alteration, change, conversion, correction, refitting |
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| Main Entry: | modification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
transient, afloat, agitating, alterable, alterative, alternating, capricious, changeable, changed, changeful, changing, chatoyant, chequered, desultory, erratic, ever-changing, fickle, fitful, fluctuating, gerful, inconsonant, interchangeable, interchanged, irresolute, labile, mobile, modifiable, mutable, newfangled, plastic, protean, proteiform, restless, spasmodic, tittupy, touch-and-go, transilient, transitional, tropophilous, unfixed, unsettled, unstable, unstayed, unsteady, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratory, vicissitudinary, wayward
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| Main Entry: | accommodation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjustment for different situation, circumstances |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, compliance, composition, compromise, conformity, fitting, modification, reconciliation, settlement, fifty-fifty deal |
| Main Entry: | alteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amendment, conversion, correction, difference, exchange, fixing, flip-flop*, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, reformation, remodeling, revision, shift, switch, transformation, transmutation, turn, variance, variation, diversification, mid-course correction, reshaping, switch-over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, adaptation |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alteration, change of heart, changeover, exchange, flip-flop*, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation, progress, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction, reformation, reorganization, resolution, reversal, switch, transformation, translation, transmutation, born again, metanoia, metasis, proselytization, regeneration, remodelling, resolving, see the light, transfiguration, transmogrification, turning, turning around |
| Antonyms: | idleness, sameness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, variance, variation, deflection, hereticism, turning |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, uniformity, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction in cost |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback, exemption, modification, percentage, premium, qualification, rebate, remission, salvage, subtraction, cut rate, knock-off, markdown, rollback, something off, tare |
| Antonyms: | increase, premium, rise, mark-up |
| Main Entry: | flux |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of constant change |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, instability, modification, motion, mutation, transition, unrest, fluidity, mutability |
| Antonyms: | constancy, stability, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | gradation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | classification, step |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, change, degree, difference, distinction, divergence, grade, level, mark, measurement, modification, notch, nuance, place, point, position, progression, rank, scale, sequence, series, shade, stage, succession, variation, calibration, grouping, ordering, sorting |
| Main Entry: | innovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, novelty |
| Synonyms: | addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word*, latest thing*, leading edge*, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle*, modernism, modernization |
| Antonyms: | custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | bar, block, check, condition, constraint, control, cramp, curb, definition, drawback, impediment, inhibition, injunction, modification, obstruction, qualification, reservation, restriction, snag, stint, stricture, taboo, circumspection |
| Notes: | limit marks an end to something; limitation is the extent of one's capacity or a constraint that stops something |
| Antonyms: | advantage, extent, freedom, infinity, range, release |
| Main Entry: | move |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, deed |
| Synonyms: | act, action, alteration, change, maneuver, measure, modification, motion, movement, ploy, procedure, proceeding, shift, step, stir, stirring, stratagem, stroke, turn, variation |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, stagnation, inactivity, regression |
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
| Synonyms: | alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transformation, variation, vicissitude, transfiguration |
| Antonyms: | inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | revision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change; rewriting |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amendment, correction, emendation, improvement, modification, polish, retrospect, review, revise, afterlight, editing, homework, overhauling, recension, reconsideration, rectification, rectifying, redaction, redraft, reediting, reexamination, rescript, restyling, retrospection, revisal, updating |
| Main Entry: | variant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | derived form |
| Synonyms: | alternative, branch, development, exception, irregularity, modification, result, variation, version, spinoff |
| Antonyms: | base, root |
| Main Entry: | variation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference; alternative |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, adaptation, alteration, bend, break, change, contrast, curve, departure, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, fluctuation, inequality, innovation, modification, mutation, novelty, shift, swerve, turn, variety, contradistinction, deflection, departure from the norm, displacement, dissimilitude, diversification, unconformity |
| Antonyms: | agreement, root, similarity, source |
| Main Entry: | adaptation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of adapting |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, adoption, alteration, conversion, modification, remodeling, shift, transformation, variation, refitting, reworking |
| Main Entry: | adjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adaptation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, arrangement, fitting, fixing, improvement, mending, modification, organization, orientation, readjustment, redress, regulation, setting, standardization, acclimation, acclimatization, balancing, conformance, correcting, ordering, organizing, regulating, repairing, shaping, turning |
| Main Entry: | amendment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correction, improvement |
| Synonyms: | alteration, betterment, change, correction, enhancement, improvement, mending, modification, reform, reformation, remedy, repair, revision, amelioration, rectification |
| Antonyms: | worsening |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something made different; alteration |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, addition, adjustment, advance, break, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude, diversification, tempering, turnover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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