revolutionises

Completely changes everything

Revolutionises is the British spelling of revolutionizes—to transform something fundamentally, to bring about radical change.

A new technology revolutionises an industry; a discovery revolutionises scientific understanding.

The word implies not mere improvement but wholesale transformation: The internet revolutionised how we communicate.

transformation

transforms

Changes form completely

modernizes · revamps · remodels · restructures · converts · metamorphoses · renews · evolves · alters · reforms

breakthrough

pioneering

First to explore territory

cutting-edge · unprecedented · milestone · advancement · discovery · invention · next-generation · state-of-the-art · leapfrog · watershed

disruption

upheaval

Violent disturbance of order

overturns · displaces · upsets · dismantles · uproots · supplants · topples · unseats · reorders · derails

innovation

inventiveness

Capacity for original creation

technology · advancement · improvement · development · upgrade · renewal · progression · novelty · originality · experimentation

Opposites
degree of change

revolutionisestweaks

Minor modifications

fine-tunes · adjusts · refines · polishes · nudges

transformation vs. preservation

revolutionisespreserves

Cooked fruit in sugar

conserves · maintains · upholds · sustains · perpetuates

innovation vs. regression

revolutionisesdegrades

Diminishes in quality

deteriorates · sets back · regresses · reverses · undoes

Family

revolutionist, revolutionised, revolutionise, revolutionising, revolutionists

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Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G