Synonyms 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 Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes.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.

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

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

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1. revolution

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Group Action

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1. sawranoun

   sawra is translated into revolution in the english language

   my name is sawra

   Submitted by sawrabitar on December 24, 2022  

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1. revolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration, whirling, circular motion

2. revolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   change (in the political constitution of a country), organic change, successful revolt or rebellion

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1. revolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration, rebellion, revolt

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1. List of paraphrases for "revolution":

   revolutionary, révolution, revolutions, revolución, al-thawra, revolt, uprising, backlash, upheaval, rebellion, rotation

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How to use revolution in a sentence?

1. Egypt Hisham Khalil:

   It is the revolution. They know people won't wait anymore.

2. Maxim Behar:

   Some PR professionals have been slow to grasp the scope of the paradigm shift brought by the social media revolution in our industry. Many who have grasped it have been slow to keep up-to-date with it.

3. Mariela Castro:

   We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

4. Maher Abid:

   The whole system must go ... We will return to the streets and we will regain our rights and our dignity that a corrupt elite seized after the revolution.

5. Bernardino Leon:

   In Libya, Islamic State has found fertile ground in the growing post revolution political instability, capitalizing also on the weakness of state institutions and state security sector.