Metamorphic Synonyms and Antonyms

mĕtə-môrfĭk
Said of conditions
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. variable
  2. unstable
  3. mobile
  4. versatile
  5. metabolic
Of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks)
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. metamorphous
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Characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. nonmetamorphic

Words Related to Metamorphic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. changeable
  2. growing
  3. igneous
  4. granulite-facies
  5. granulite
  6. sedimentary
  7. migmatites
  8. metamorphism
  9. magmatic
  10. mafic
  11. facies
  12. felsic
  13. lithology
  14. pelitic
  15. volcaniclastic
  16. plutonic

Metamorphic Sentence Examples

  • The central plateau consists almost entirely of metamorphic rocks with extensive tracts of granite in Unyamwezi.

  • In many deposits of iron ores found in connexion with igneous or metamorphic rocks small quantities of phosphate occur.

  • Consisting of red sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates, they are inclined at high angles usually away from the granite massif and the encircling metamorphic rocks.

  • In the Umzimkulu river and in the Tugela river below its junction with the Buffalo, metamorphic limestones are associated with schists, gneisses and granites.

  • They occur (a) in crystalline igneous and metamorphic rocks as an original constituent, (b) in veins associated with igneous rocks, and (c) in sedimentary rocks either as organic fragments or in secondary concretionary forms.

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