Word Meanings - REVOLVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved

Additional info about word: REVOLVE

1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. 4. To return; to pass. Ayliffe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REVOLVE)

• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• meditate
• think
• reflect
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• infer
• deduce
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• ponder
• deem
• Meditate
• Think
• purpose
• ruminate
• contemplate
• plan
• consider
• Roll
• Revolve
• wheel
• rotate
• rock
• trundle wallow
• Turn
• Round
• shape
• mold
• adapt
• spin
• reverse
• deflect
• alter
• transform
• convert
• metamorphose
• hinge
• depend
• deviate
• incline
• diverge
• decline
• change

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REVOLVE)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Chance
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to REVOLVE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.