Reversal Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-vûrsəl
The act of changing or being changed from one position, direction, or course to the opposite
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inversion
  2. turnaround
  3. transposition
  4. turnabout
  5. about-face
  6. anticlimax
  7. bathos
  8. turn-around
  9. reversion
  10. metathesis
  11. mutation
  12. peripety
  13. reverse
  14. setback
  15. u-turn
  16. volte-face
Antonyms:
  1. affirmation
The act of reversing or annulling
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. about-face
  2. repeal
  3. repudiation
  4. recall
  5. transposition
  6. rescission
  7. turnabout
  8. revocation
  9. volte-face
  10. policy change
A change from better to worse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reverse
  2. setback
  3. backset
  4. blow
  5. black eye
A decision to reverse an earlier decision
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. change of mind
  2. flip-flop
  3. turnabout
  4. turnaround
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. invert
  2. transpose

Words Related to Reversal

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.

Reversal Sentence Examples

  • In his later book, Dioptrice (1611), he fully discusses refraction and the use of lenses, showing the action of the double convex lens in the camera obscura, with the principles which regulate its use and the reason of the reversal of the image.

  • On the other hand it is not necessary to reset the telescope after each reversal of the segments.4 When Bessel ordered the Konigsberg heliometer, he was anxious to have the segments made to move in cylindrical slides, of which the radius should be equal to the focal length of the object-glass.

  • For shallow water greater precision and certainty are obtained by using a lever actuated by a weight slipped down the line to cause the reversal, as in the patterns of Rung, Mill and others.

  • Reversal of tubal ligation is a major surgery.

  • A carefully made ship's compass is usually employed, though in some cases the compass card, with its attached magnets, is made reversible, so that the inclination to the zero of the card of the magnetic axis of the system of magnets attached to the card can be eliminated by reversal.

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