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about face
adverb as in vice versa
noun as in reverse
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noun as in setback
noun as in shift
noun as in switch
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Weak match
noun as in transformation
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Weak match
noun as in turn
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Weak matches
noun as in upheaval
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noun as in variance
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noun as in vicissitude
noun as in retraction
noun as in change of heart
noun as in volte-face
noun as in change
noun as in metanoia
Weak matches
- about-face
- alteration
- change of heart
- changeover
- exchange
- flip-flop
- flux
- growth
- innovation
- metamorphosis
- metasis
- modification
- novelty
- passage
- passing
- permutation
- progress
- proselytization
- qualification
- rebirth
- reclamation
- reconstruction
- reformation
- regeneration
- remodelling
- reorganization
- resolution
- resolving
- reversal
- see the light
- switch
- transfiguration
- transformation
- translation
- transmogrification
- transmutation
- turning
- turning around
noun as in palinode
noun as in recantation
noun as in regeneration
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noun as in retractation
noun as in transfiguration
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- about-face
- addition
- adjustment
- advance
- break
- changeover
- compression
- contraction
- conversion
- correction
- development
- difference
- distortion
- diversification
- diversity
- innovation
- metamorphosis
- modification
- modulation
- mutation
- novelty
- permutation
- reconstruction
- refinement
- reversal
- revision
- revolution
- shift
- surrogate
- switch
- transformation
- transition
- translation
- transmogrification
- transmutation
- transubstantiation
- turn
- turnover
- variance
- variation
- variety
- vicissitude
Weak match
noun as in transmogrification
Strong matches
- about-face
- addition
- adjustment
- advance
- break
- changeover
- compression
- contraction
- conversion
- correction
- development
- difference
- distortion
- diversification
- diversity
- innovation
- metamorphosis
- modification
- modulation
- mutation
- novelty
- permutation
- reconstruction
- refinement
- reversal
- revision
- revolution
- shift
- surrogate
- switch
- transfiguration
- transformation
- transition
- translation
- transmutation
- transubstantiation
- turn
- turnover
- variance
- variation
- variety
- vicissitude
Weak match
noun as in transubstantiation
Strong matches
- about-face
- addition
- adjustment
- advance
- break
- changeover
- compression
- contraction
- conversion
- correction
- development
- difference
- distortion
- diversification
- diversity
- innovation
- metamorphosis
- modification
- modulation
- mutation
- novelty
- permutation
- reconstruction
- refinement
- reversal
- revision
- revolution
- shift
- surrogate
- switch
- transfiguration
- transformation
- transition
- translation
- transmogrification
- transmutation
- turn
- turnover
- variance
- variation
- variety
- vicissitude
Weak match
noun as in conversion
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noun as in alteration
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noun as in about-face
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noun as in flip-flop
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verb as in reverse
verb as in revert
verb as in shift
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verb as in turn
Strong matches
verb as in backpedal
verb as in backtrack
noun as in complete change
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Example Sentences
His warning to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and subsequent about-face is still considered a low point of his presidency.
Since 2008, the party has executed a huge about-face on issues of executive power and national security.
Asked to explain the about-face, Bush blamed the shifting political sands.
Yet such an about-face seems unlikely, at least according to one rank-and-file Brotherhood member.
But such an about-face by the stubborn government seems unlikely.
He turned on his heel in an automatically correct about-face and strode out of the office.
His complete about-face wasn't setting so well with Herr Stohl.
He had sternly informed her that she must about-face and do better.
Funny change of direction, from planning to go out to China and the East, about-face to planning to settle down and take root.
Heaven knows at that there was such a sudden pause and about-face as must have made even the stolen dog laugh had it been there.
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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to about-face, such as: policy change, reversal, turnabout, turnaround, u-turn, and change.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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