vicissitude

The word “vicissitude” has 4 syllables: vi-cis-si-tude

It's pronounced as /vɪˈsɪsɪˌtud/


What is synonym and antonym for vicissitude?

In the thesaurus, “vicissitude” has 59 synonyms and 4 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vicissitude along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vicissitude

  • about-face
  • acid test
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • alteration
  • alternation
  • annoyance
  • asperity
  • baptism
  • challenge
  • complication
  • cross
  • crucible
  • difficulty
  • discomfort
  • diversity
  • fire
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuation
  • gantlet
  • gauntlet
  • grief
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • inconvenience
  • initiation
  • innovation
  • litmus test
  • mid-course correction
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • mutability
  • mutation
  • novelty
  • nuisance
  • ordeal
  • permutation
  • privation
  • progression
  • reversal
  • revolution
  • rigor
  • shift
  • sport
  • switch
  • switchover
  • tragedy
  • transposition
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • turnaround
  • uncertainty
  • ups and downs
  • variation
  • variety
  • woe

Antonyms for vicissitude

  • similarity
  • stability
  • stagnation
  • uniformity

Meanings of vicissitude

  • noun
    1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
    2. (often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.

Example Sentences

  • He endured every vicissitude of life with quiet strength.
  • The business survived the vicissitude of market changes over the decades.
  • Travelers must be prepared for the vicissitude of weather and terrain.
  • Her memoir details the emotional vicissitude of growing up during wartime.
  • The artist’s style evolved through each vicissitude of his personal journey.

On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vicissitude, such as: about-face, acid test, adversity, affliction, alteration, alternation, annoyance.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

bafflement

  • abashment
  • ado
  • adverse fate
  • adversity
  • aggravation
  • agitation
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • bamboozlement
  • befuddlement
  • bemusement
  • bewilderedness
  • bewilderment
  • blow
  • bother
  • care
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • commotion
  • complication
  • confusedness
  • confusion
  • crisis
  • daze
  • defeat
  • depression
  • despondency
  • discombobulation
  • discomfiture
  • discomfort
  • disconcertment
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • disenchantment
  • disgruntlement
  • disillusion
  • disillusionment
  • dismay
  • disorientation
  • disquiet
  • dissatisfaction
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • embarrassment
  • emergency
  • exigency
  • failure
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • fog
  • frustration
  • fuss
  • grievance
  • hangup
  • harassment
  • head-scratching
  • imbroglio
  • inconvenience
  • irritation
  • jam
  • lack of success
  • letdown
  • maze
  • mess
  • millstone
  • misery
  • mortification
  • muddle
  • mystification
  • nonsuccess
  • obfuscation
  • oppression
  • perplexity
  • perturbation
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • predicament
  • pressure
  • puzzle
  • puzzlement
  • quandary
  • ramification
  • regret
  • responsibility
  • scrape
  • setback
  • stew
  • strain
  • strait
  • stress
  • strife
  • struggle
  • stupefaction
  • stupor
  • surprise
  • tangle
  • the knocks
  • to-do
  • trouble
  • turmoil
  • unfulfillment
  • upset
  • vicissitude
  • weight
  • whirl
  • worry

gantlet

  • acid test
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • annoyance
  • asperity
  • baptism
  • baptism of fire
  • challenge
  • complication
  • cross
  • crucible
  • difficulty
  • discomfort
  • fire
  • grief
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • inconvenience
  • initiation
  • litmus test
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • nuisance
  • ordeal
  • privation
  • rigor
  • tragedy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • vicissitude
  • woe

needfulness

  • absence
  • acuteness
  • call
  • cause
  • claim
  • compulsion
  • constraint
  • contingency
  • crisis
  • criticalness
  • crossroad
  • dearth
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • demandingness
  • deprivation
  • desideratum
  • dilemma
  • distress
  • duress
  • emergency
  • essence
  • essential
  • exaction
  • exigence
  • exigency
  • extremity
  • famishment
  • fix
  • fundamental
  • godsend
  • hardship
  • imperative
  • imperativeness
  • inadequacy
  • indispensability
  • inevitability
  • inexorableness
  • insufficiency
  • jam
  • juncture
  • lack
  • life or death
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • must
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • necessity
  • need
  • no alternative
  • no choice
  • obligation
  • pass
  • paucity
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • plight
  • poverty
  • precondition
  • predicament
  • prerequisite
  • pressingness
  • pressure
  • privation
  • quandary
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • scantiness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • scrape
  • shortage
  • sine qua non
  • skimpiness
  • stress
  • turning point
  • undeniability
  • urgency
  • vicissitude
  • vital part
  • vitals
  • want
  • wont
  • zero hour

calvary

  • Gehenna
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • agony
  • albatross
  • anguish
  • annoyance
  • bane
  • blow
  • bother
  • bummer
  • burden
  • calamity
  • care
  • complication
  • cross
  • cross to bear
  • crucible
  • curse
  • difficulty
  • distress
  • downer
  • drag
  • gall
  • grief
  • hard time
  • hardship
  • hassle
  • heartbreak
  • hell
  • horror
  • inconvenience
  • irritation
  • load
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • murder
  • nightmare
  • nuisance
  • ordeal
  • pain
  • pain in the neck
  • pest
  • plague
  • rigor
  • severe test
  • sorrow
  • suffering
  • test
  • thorn
  • torment
  • torture
  • tragedy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trying time
  • unhappiness
  • vexation
  • vicissitude
  • visitation
  • woe
  • wretchedness

baptism by fire

  • acid test
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • annoyance
  • asperity
  • baptism
  • challenge
  • complication
  • cross
  • crucible
  • difficulty
  • discomfort
  • fire
  • gantlet
  • gauntlet
  • grief
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • inconvenience
  • initiation
  • litmus test
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • nuisance
  • ordeal
  • privation
  • rigor
  • tragedy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • vicissitude
  • woe

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