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Roget's Thesaurus

Simple Change

Change (Difference at different times)

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
  • changed etc. v.
  • newfangled
  • changeable etc. Changeableness
  • transitional
  • modifiable
  • alterative.
Phrases
  • a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]
  • nous avons change tout cela [Moliere]
  • corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus]
  • still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]

Permanence (Absence of change)

Nouns
  • stability etc. Stability
  • quiescence etc. Quiescence
  • obstinacy etc. Obstinacy. permanence, persistence, endurance
  • durability
  • standing, status quo
  • maintenance, preservation, conservation
  • conservation
  • law of the Medes and Persians
  • standing dish.
Verbs
  • let alone, let be, let it be
  • persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest
  • stet (copy editing) hold, hold on
  • last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep
  • stand, stand still, stand fast
  • subsist, live, outlive, survive
  • hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing
  • hold good.
Adjectives
Adverbs
  • for good, finally
  • at a stand, at a standstill
  • without a shadow of turning.

Cessation (Change from action to rest)

Nouns
  • cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence. intermission, remission
  • suspense, suspension
  • interruption
  • stop
  • stopping etc. v.
  • closure, stoppage, halt
  • arrival etc. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop
  • interregnum, abeyance
  • cloture [U.S.]. dead stop, dead stand, dead lock
  • finis
  • blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration
  • comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop
  • end etc. End
  • death etc. Death.
Verbs
  • cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt
  • break off, leave off
  • hold, stop, pull up, stop short
  • stick, hang fire
  • halt
  • pause, rest
  • burn out, blow out, melt down. have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop
  • give up etc. (relinquish) Relinquishment. hold one's hand, stay one's hand
  • rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels. come to a stand, come to a standstill
  • come to a deadlock, come to a full stop
  • arrive etc. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival
  • go out, die away
  • wear away, wear off
  • pass away etc. (be past) [Retrospective time.] The Past
  • be at an end
  • disintegrate, self-destruct. intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel
  • intermit, remit
  • put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to
  • derail
  • turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect
  • bring to a stand, bring to a standstill
  • stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent
  • pull the check-string, pull the plug on.
Int
  • hold!, stop!, enough!, avast!, have done!, a truce to!, soft!, leave off!
Phrases
  • I pause for a reply" [Julius Caesar].

Continuance in action

Nouns
Verbs
  • continue, persist
  • go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on
  • abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course
  • carry on, keep up. sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot
  • follow up, perpetuate
  • maintain
  • preserve etc. Resolution.Existence
  • harp upon etc. (repeat) Repetition. keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work
  • die in harness, die with one's boots on
  • hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way. let be
  • let things take their course
  • stare decisis (Jurisprudence).
Adjectives
  • continuing etc. v.
  • uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting
  • unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried
  • sustained
  • undying etc. (perpetual) [Endless duration.] Perpetuity
  • inconvertible.
Int
  • keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!
Phrases
  • labitur et albetur [Horace].

Conversion (Gradual change to something different)

Nouns
  • conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation
  • evolution, sea change
  • change of state
  • assumption
  • naturalization
  • transportation
  • development [Biol.], developing. [photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency
  • exchange rate
  • bureau de change. chemistry, alchemy
  • progress, growth, lapse, flux. passage
  • transit, transition
  • transmigration, shifting etc. v.
  • phase
  • conjugation
  • convertibility. crucible, alembic, caldron, retort. convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.
Verbs
  • be converted into
  • become, get, wax
  • come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into
  • turn out, lapse, shift
  • run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as
  • melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow
  • assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of
  • illapse
  • begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. convert into, resolve into
  • make, render
  • mold, form etc. Form
  • remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize
  • assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
Adjectives
  • converted into etc. v.
  • convertible, resolvable into
  • transitional
  • naturalized.
Adverbs
  • gradually

Reversion

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
  • reverting etc. v.
  • regressive, revulsive, reactionary
  • retrorse.

Revolution (Sudden or violent change)

Nouns
  • revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up
  • destruction etc. [Nonproduction.] Destruction
  • sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change
  • change of state, phase change
  • quantum leap, quantum jump
  • clean sweep, counter revolution. jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience
  • explosion
  • spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion
  • storm, earthquake, cataclysm. legerdemain etc. (trick) Deception.
Verbs
  • revolutionize
  • new model, remodel, recast
  • strike out something new, break with the past
  • change the face of, unsex.
Adjectives
  • unrecognizable
  • revolutionary.

Substitution (Change of one thing for another)

Nouns
  • substitution, commutation
  • supplanting etc. v.
  • metaphor, metonymy etc. (figure of speech) Metaphor. [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum
  • shift, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat
  • double
  • changeling
  • quid pro quo, alternative. representative etc. (deputy) Deputy
  • palimpsest. price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
Verbs
  • substitute, put in the place of, change for
  • make way for, give place to
  • supply the place of, take the place of
  • supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute
  • step into stand in the shoes of
  • jury rig, make a shift with, put up with
  • borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize
  • commute, redeem, compound for.
Adjectives
  • substituted etc.
  • ersatz
  • phony
  • vicarious, subdititious.
Adverbs
  • instead
  • in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of

Interchange (Double or mutual change)

Nouns
  • interchange, exchange
  • commutation, permutation, intermutation
  • reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement
  • shuffling
  • alternation, reciprocity
  • castling (at chess)
  • hocus-pocus. interchangeableness, interchangeability. recombination
  • combination etc. Combination. barter etc. Barter
  • tit for tat etc. (retaliation) Retaliation
  • cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock
  • quid pro quo.
Verbs
  • interchange, exchange, counterchange
  • bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute
  • give and take, return the compliment
  • play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock
  • retaliate etc. Retaliation
  • requite. rearrange, recombine.
Adjectives
  • interchanged etc. v.
  • reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent. combinatorial [Math.]. recombinant [Biol.].
Adverbs
  • in exchange, vice versa, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about
  • each in his turn, everyone in his turn.