change by reversal

1. 1.

   change to the contrary

   “The trend was reversed”

   “the tides turned against him”

   “public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern”

   Synonymsturnreverse

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerinterchangeturn the tablescommutateswitch overcorrectfalsifypermutemetamorphoserevertdesynchronize

Questions about change by reversal

What does change by reversal mean?

change by reversal means "change to the contrary".

What is another word for change by reversal?

Close synonyms include turn, reverse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change by reversal a common word?

change by reversal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.