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Roget's Thesaurus

#146. Revolution

[Sudden or violent change.]

Nouns

revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction etc. 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat [Fr.], counter revolution. jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm. legerdemain etc. (trick) 545.

Verbs

revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.

Adjectives

unrecognizable; revolutionary.


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