transmogrify

1. 1.

   change completely the nature or appearance of

   “In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug”

   “The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman”

   “Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection”

   Synonymsmetamorphosetransfigure

   Broaderchange by reversal

Other forms of transmogrify

past tense or participle

transmogrified

present participle

transmogrifying·

third person

transmogrifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transmogrify

What does transmogrify mean?

transmogrify means "change completely the nature or appearance of".

How many syllables are in transmogrify?

transmogrify has 4 syllables: tran-smo-gri-fy. The stress falls on "smo".

What is another word for transmogrify?

Close synonyms include metamorphose, transfigure. 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 transmogrify a common word?

transmogrify 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.