Roget's Thesaurus

#140. Change

Nouns

change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break. transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization [Chem]; transubstantiation; [Genetics] mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative. conversion etc. (gradual change) 144; revolution etc. (sudden or radical change) 146, inversion etc. (reversal) 218; displacement etc. 185; transference etc. 270. changeableness etc. 149; tergiversation etc. (change of mind) 607.

Verbs

change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes. innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf. recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144.

Adjectives

changed etc. v.; newfangled; changeable etc. 149; transitional; modifiable; alterative.

Adverbs

mutatis mutandis [Lat.].

Interjections

quantum mutatus! [Lat.],

Phrases

a change came o'er the spirit of my dream [Byron]; nous avons change tout cela [Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis [Lat.]; non sum qualis eram [Lat.] [Horace]; casaque tourner [Fr.]; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus]; in statu quo ante bellum [Lat.]; still ending and beginning still [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet [Lat.].