Word Meanings - REVERSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REVERSAL)

• Innovation
• Alteration
• reversal
• novelty
• newfangledness
• Inversion
• Reversal
• deflection
• alteration
• permutation
• violation
• transposition

Related words: (words related to REVERSAL)

• INNOVATION
  A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses. (more info) 1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden. 2. A change effected by innovating; a change in
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• REVERSAL
  Intended to reverse; implying reversal. Bp. Burnet.
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• PERMUTATION
  Barter; exchange. Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking. (more info) 1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing
• DEFLECTIONIZE
  To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.
• TRANSPOSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition. Pegge.
• NEWFANGLEDNESS
  Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.
• INNOVATIONIST
  One who favors innovation.
• INVERSION
  A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on. (more info) 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change
• DEFLECTION
  The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. (more info) 1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point,
• DEFLECTIONIZATION
  The act of freeing from inflections. Earle.
• TRANSPOSITION
  The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically: -- (more info) transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over +
• VIOLATION
  The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my