Synonyms for evolve
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Develop — to cause (something) to come into being or develop
develop, grow, produce, expand, create, make, unfold, form, forme US, bring forth, generate, breed, formulate, spawn, engender, explicate, contrive, invent, originate, forge, beget, compose
2. Metamorphose — to change or transform (something)
metamorphose, reconvert, draw dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To change or transform (something).
Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.
- v. 2
To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
Related words
- Word family
- evolute evolution evolvement
Forms
- Past participle
- evolved
e.g. evolved → developed, grown, produced, expanded…
Example sentences
- grow "I will grow many trees here", he said to himself.
- produce Your pessimism won't produce any positive results.
- develop What does it mean to develop a sound architecture?
- expand Detours expand your knowledge of the surroundings.
- progress You will progress in proportion to your abilities.
- acquire I managed to acquire the book after a long search.
By length
- 4 letters
- make1, form1, grow1, draw1
- 5 letters
- breed1, forge1, spawn1, forme, beget2, educe
- 6 letters
- create2, expand2, invent2, unfold2
- 7 letters
- develop3, produce2, acquire3, compose2, evolute
- 8 letters
- progress2, generate3, engender3, contrive2
- 9 letters
- originate4, formulate3, germinate3, extricate3, explicate3, reconvert
- 11 letters
- disentangle4
- 12 letters
- metamorphose4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (beget2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- évoluer
- Italiano
- svilupparsi
- Español
- desarrollar
- Deutsch
- fortschreiten
- Català
- desenvolupar-se