Defenition of the word reversion

• Defenition of the word reversion

  • a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
  • a failure to maintain a higher state
  • returning to a former state
  • (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  • turning in the opposite direction
  • a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  • (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)

Synonyms for the word reversion

• • atavism
  • backsliding
  • decline
  • degeneration
  • deterioration
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • recidivism
  • regress
  • regression
  • relapse
  • relapsing
  • retrogression
  • retroversion
  • reversal
  • reverse
  • reverting
  • setback
  • throwback
  • turnabout
  • turnaround
  • waning

Similar words in the reversion

• • reversion
  • reversion's

Hyponyms for the word reversion

• • about turn
  • about-face
  • escheat
  • recidivism
  • u-turn

Hypernyms for the word reversion

• • change of direction
  • chromosomal mutation
  • failure
  • genetic mutation
  • interest
  • mutation
  • recurrence
  • reorientation
  • return
  • reversal
  • stake

See other words

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  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word go back over the same ground
  • The origin of the word worsen
  • Synonym for the word relapsed
  • Antonyms for the word be given up
  • Homonyms for the word momentary failure
  • Hyponyms for the word soft
  • Holonyms for the word blunder
  • Hypernyms for the word relapses
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word slip-up
  • Translation of the word in other languages trail off