Revolve Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-vŏlv
To move or cause to move in circles or around an axis
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. circle
  2. gyrate
  3. orbit
  4. roll
  5. rotate
  6. turn
  7. wheel
  8. circumvolve
  9. brood over
  10. consider
  11. deliberate
  12. devolve
  13. gyre
  14. meditate
  15. ponder
  16. reflect
  17. ruminate
  18. spin
  19. swing
  20. twirl
  21. whirl
To think or think about carefully and at length
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. orbit
  2. rotate
  3. spin
  4. chew on
  5. cogitate
  6. consider
  7. contemplate
  8. deliberate
  9. entertain
  10. excogitate
  11. meditate
  12. mull
  13. muse
  14. ponder
  15. orb
  16. go around
  17. reflect
  18. ruminate
  19. study
  20. think
  21. think out
  22. think over
  23. twirl
  24. think through
  25. turn over
  26. weigh
Antonyms:
  1. ignore
  2. neglect
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To turn on an axis; rotate.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turn
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. vertiginous
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. circumgyration
  2. turnstile
  3. volution
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Words Related to Revolve

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. move
  2. thoughts
  3. repetition
  4. worldunlike
  5. interface-implementation

Revolve Sentence Examples

  • He did not succeed in making the wire or the magnet revolve on its own axis.

  • The first great fact to be noticed is that the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction.

  • Two stars are supposed to revolve about one another nearly or actually in contact.

  • This consists of a cast-iron pan having a shallow cylindrical bottom holding mercury, in which a wooden muller, nearly of the same shape as the inside of the pan, and armed below with several projecting blades, is made to revolve by gearing wheels.

  • But, as has been remarked by Dr Robert Grant (History of Physical Astronomy, p. 515), we are no more warranted in drawing so important a conclusion from casual remarks, however sagacious, than we should be justified in stating that Seneca was in possession of the discoveries of Newton because he predicted that comets would one day be found to revolve in periodic orbits.

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