Antonyms for revolution
ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃənrev·o·lu·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.4 / 7 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   Antonyms:
   evolution

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

1. revolution

   The essential idea of revolution is a change in the form of government or constitution, or a change of rulers, otherwise than as provided by the laws of succession, election, etc.; while such change is apt to involve armed hostilities, these make no necessary part of the revolution. The revolution by which Dom Pedro was dethroned, and Brazil changed from an empire to a republic, was accomplished without a battle, and almost without a shot. Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes. Lawlessness is a temper of mind or condition of the community which may result in anarchy. Confusion, disorder, riot, and tumult are incidental and temporary outbreaks of lawlessness, but may not be anarchy. Insubordination is individual disobedience. Sedition is the plotting, rebellion the fighting, against the existing government, but always with the purpose of establishing some other government in its place. When rebellion is successful it is called revolution; but there may be revolution without rebellion; as, the English Revolution of 1688. A revolt is an uprising against existing authority without the comprehensive views of change in the form or administration of government that are involved in revolution. Anarchy, when more than temporary disorder, is a proposed disintegration of society, in which it is imagined that social order might exist without government. Slaves make insurrection; soldiers or sailors break out in mutiny; subject provinces rise in revolt. Compare SOCIALISM.

   Antonyms:
   authority, command, control, domination, dominion, empire, government, law, loyalty, obedience, order, rule, sovereignty, submission, supremacy

   Synonyms:
   anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, riot, sedition, tumult

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. revolution

   Antonyms:
   fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression

   Synonyms:
   rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt, reconstitution, emeute

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Group Action

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

   "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution"

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration

2. revolutionnoun

   the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration

3. rotation, revolution, gyrationnoun

   a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

   "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

   Synonyms:
   rotation, rotary motion, whirling, gyration

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration, rebellion, revolt

How to use revolution in a sentence?

1. John Adams:

   The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

2. Ronald Reagan:

   We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

3. Bryant McGill:

   In a world of hate, love is the revolution.

4. Ronald Reagan:

   This is the issue of this election : whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

5. Franz Kafka:

   Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

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