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| Main Entry: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuate |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alter, blow hot and cold*, budge, change, cook*, deviate, dislocate, displace, disturb, do up*, drift, exchange, fault, flip-flop*, hem and haw*, move, rearrange, remove, replace, ship, shuffle, slip, stir, substitute, swerve, tack, transfer, transpose, turn, vacillate, vary, veer, waffle, bottom out, change gears, dial back, move around, move over, recalibrate, relocate, reposition, swap places, switch over, transmogrify, turn around, turn the corner, turn the tables, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | deactivate, remain, stagnate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | changeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erratic |
| Synonyms: | agitated, capricious, convertible, fickle, fitful, flighty, fluid, impulsive, inconstant, indecisive, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, restless, skittish, spasmodic, uncertain, unpredictable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variant, varying, versatile, volatile, wavering, whimsical, changeful, commutative, fluctuating, permutable, protean, reversible, revocable, shifting, transformable, transitional |
| Antonyms: | certain, changeless, constant, fixed, lasting, reliable, stable, steady, sure, unchangeable, undeviating |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward, drifting, errable, misbehaving, off straight and narrow, offending, shifting |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | erratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpredictable; wandering |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, idiosyncratic, iffy*, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball*, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical, directionless, fluctuant, shifting, undirected, vagarious |
| Antonyms: | certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular, sporadic |
| Synonyms: | broken, capricious, catchy*, changeable, desultory, disturbed, erratic, flickering, haphazard, hit-or-miss*, impulsive, inconstant, intermittent, interrupted, periodic, random, recurrent, restive, restless, spasmodic, spotty, unstable, variable, bits and pieces, fluctuating, herky-jerky, on-again-off-again, shifting, spastic |
| Antonyms: | constant, continuous, even, regular, undisturbed, unvarying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incongruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of place; absurd |
| Synonyms: | alien, bizarre, conflicting, contradictory, discordant, disparate, distorted, divergent, extraneous, fantastic, fitful, foreign, illogical, improper, inappropriate, inapt, incoherent, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, irregular, jumbled, lopsided, rambling, twisted, unavailing, unbalanced, unbecoming, unconnected, uncoordinated, uneven, unintelligible, unpredictable, unrelated, unsuitable, unsuited, disconsonant, inapropos, incongruent, mismatched, out of keeping, shifting |
| Antonyms: | compatible, congruous, consistent, corresponding, fitting, harmonious, matched, suitable, uniform |
| Main Entry: | inconstant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeable |
| Synonyms: | capricious, erratic, fickle, flickering, impulsive, inconsistent, intermittent, irregular, irresolute, mercurial, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, vacillating, variable, varying, volatile, wavering, changeful, fluctuating, shifting, waffling |
| Main Entry: | intermittent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular, sporadic |
| Synonyms: | alternate, arrested, broken, cyclical, discontinuous, fitful, hit-or-miss*, infrequent, interrupted, now and then*, occasional, on and off*, periodic, periodical, recurrent, rhythmic, serial, spasmodic, by bits and pieces, checked, cyclic, discontinuing, epochal, every other, here and there, isochronal, isochronous, iterant, iterative, metrical, punctuated, recurring, rhythmical, seasonal, shifting, stop-and-go |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, continuing, perpetual, regular |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, migratory, moving, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging, roving, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring, ambulant, journeying, on foot, riding the rails, shifting, travelling |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| 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: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
| Synonyms: | cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flitting*, flying, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, passing, quick, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile, flashing, fugacious, gone in flash, in wink of an eye, like lightning, shifting |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | temporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lasting only a short while |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad hoc, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, makeshift*, momentary, mortal, passing, perishable, pro tempore, provisional, short, short-lived, slapdash*, stopgap*, substitute, summary, supply, transient, transitory, unstable, volatile, Band-Aid, ad interim, for the time being, fugacious, make-do, overnight, pro tem, provisory, shifting, temp, unfixed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
| Synonyms: | aimless, destitute, down-and-out*, errant, fancy-free*, fly-by-night*, footloose*, idle, itinerant, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, roving, shiftless, stray, transient, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward, drifting, itinerate, journeying, perambulant, perambulatory, rootless, sauntering, shifting, straggling, strolling, travelling |
| Antonyms: | settled, inhabiting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | variable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changing, changeable |
| Synonyms: | capricious, fickle, fitful, flexible, fluid, iffy*, inconstant, irregular, mercurial, mobile, mutable, shifty, slippery*, spasmodic, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, wavering, changeful, fluctuating, protean, shifting, unequable, waffling, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | invariable, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | standardizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normative |
| Synonyms: | controlling, determining, directive, balancing, directing, normalizing, regularizing, regulating, regulative, shifting |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, effective, efficacious, flowing, hasty, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, simmering, speedy, traveling, walking, working, at work, bustling, exertive, functioning, going, impelling, in force, in play, in process, shifting, speeding, streaming, swarming, turning |
| Antonyms: | dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish, abeyant |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, variable |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, aimless, capricious, casual, changeable, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful, fragmentary, haphazard, hit-or-miss*, inconstant, indiscriminate, infrequent, intermittent, jerky, occasional, out of order, patchy, purposeless, recurrent, shaky, spasmodic, sporadic, uncertain, uneven, unreliable, unsettled, unsteady, designless, faltering, fluctuating, nonuniform, shifting, unconsidered, unmethodical, unpunctual, unsystematic, up and down, weaving |
| Antonyms: | conventional, methodical, regular, systematic |
* = 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: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuation |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alteration, bend, change, changeover, conversion, deviation, double, fault, modification, move, passage, permutation, removal, substitution, tack, transfer, transformation, transit, turn, variation, veering, yaw, deflection, displacement, rearrangement, shifting, transference, translocation |
| Antonyms: | maintenance, stagnation, deactivation |
* = 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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