Antonyms for revolution
ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃənrev·o·lu·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.4 / 7 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   Antonyms:
   evolution

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

1. revolution

   The essential idea of revolution is a change in the form of government or constitution, or a change of rulers, otherwise than as provided by the laws of succession, election, etc.; while such change is apt to involve armed hostilities, these make no necessary part of the revolution. The revolution by which Dom Pedro was dethroned, and Brazil changed from an empire to a republic, was accomplished without a battle, and almost without a shot. Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes. Lawlessness is a temper of mind or condition of the community which may result in anarchy. Confusion, disorder, riot, and tumult are incidental and temporary outbreaks of lawlessness, but may not be anarchy. Insubordination is individual disobedience. Sedition is the plotting, rebellion the fighting, against the existing government, but always with the purpose of establishing some other government in its place. When rebellion is successful it is called revolution; but there may be revolution without rebellion; as, the English Revolution of 1688. A revolt is an uprising against existing authority without the comprehensive views of change in the form or administration of government that are involved in revolution. Anarchy, when more than temporary disorder, is a proposed disintegration of society, in which it is imagined that social order might exist without government. Slaves make insurrection; soldiers or sailors break out in mutiny; subject provinces rise in revolt. Compare SOCIALISM.

   Antonyms:
   authority, command, control, domination, dominion, empire, government, law, loyalty, obedience, order, rule, sovereignty, submission, supremacy

   Synonyms:
   anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, riot, sedition, tumult

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. revolution

   Antonyms:
   fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression

   Synonyms:
   rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt, reconstitution, emeute

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Group Action

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

   "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution"

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration

2. revolutionnoun

   the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration

3. rotation, revolution, gyrationnoun

   a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

   "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

   Synonyms:
   rotation, rotary motion, whirling, gyration

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. revolutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rotation, gyration, rebellion, revolt

How to use revolution in a sentence?

1. Aldous Huxley:

   The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

2. President Nicolas Maduro:

   The time for a new oil revolution has come.

3. Mikhail Sokolov:

   If we believe their words, they really think that the CIA is trying to facilitate a revolution in Russia and that Alexey Navalny is an agent from the CIA, they deploy huge amounts of resources and effort not to let the revolution happen in Russia. They are looking for a foreign enemy.

4. Ben Ali:

   We paid a high price for the revolution and now just four years later the old regime is back with a new look and democratic talk, we'll keep fighting for freedoms we won.

5. Antonio Becali:

   Our principles are the principles of the revolution.

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