reversal

Meaning

Noun

1. The state of being reversed.
2. An instance of reversing.
3. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.

Adj

Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

Synonyms

inversion

reverse

turnaround

cancellation

setback

turnabout

repeal

change

annulment

transposition

about-face

turn

turn around

upset

volte-face

reversion

revocation

exchange

turning

policy change

retrogression

black eye

relapse

flip-flop

overthrow

overturn

abolishment

going back

quashing

change of mind

abrogation

blow

recission

refutation

removal

replacement

replacing

repudiation

rescinding

rescission

retreat

return

reversed

back

🔙

reversing

revoke

sales

shift

substitution

subversion

swop

trade

turnover

veering

voidance

whammy

refutal

turn-around

coming from behind

backrun

contrarotation

contravariance

rough sledding

back run

backdraught

back swing

sign reversal

back motion

retracting stroke

contra-rotating

back turn

reverse direction

abolition

about turn

adversity

antistrophe

avoidance

backfire

backlash

backward

blowback

boomerang

🪃

chess

confutation

conversion

difference

disproof

double

failure

falsification

flyback

hardship

interchange

invalidation

inverse

invert

licking

neutralization

nullification

opposite

override

rebound

rebuttal

Translations

inversión

Umkehrung

revirement

renversement

Umschwung

Storno

ommekeer

transposition

retournement

Stornierung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reversall

In summary

From Middle English reversall; equivalent to reverse + -al.