- Types Of Speech
- You can use devolve as a verb in a sentence.
- About Devolve
- A 3 syllables verb and 7 letters with the letters d, e, l, o, and v, 4 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter o. Devolve starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, de, dev, devo, devol, and the ending characters are e, ve, lve, olve, volve, ..
- Definition
- Grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- Scrabble
- Is devolve a scrabble word? A 14 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Devolve in Pig Latin is said as "evolveday or evolvedway".
- Unigram
- d | e | v | o | l | v | e
- Bigram
- de | ev | vo | ol | lv | ve
- Trigram
- dev | evo | vol | olv | lve
- Quadrigram
- devo | evol | volv | olve
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- grow worse;
"Her condition deteriorated";
"Conditions in the slums degenerated";
"The discussion devolved into a shouting match" - be inherited by;
"The estate fell to my sister";
"The land returned to the family";
"The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" - pass on or delegate to another;
"The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accredit | give credit for "She was not properly credited in the program" |
| Acerbate | make sour or bitter |
| Acidity | the property of being acidic |
| Agent Provocateur | |
| Aggravate | make worse "This drug aggravates the pain" |
| Alter | remove the ovaries of "Is your cat spayed?" |
| Ameliorate | get better "The weather improved toward evening" |
| Amplify | increase the volume of "amplify sound" |
| Annoy | cause annoyance in disturb, especially by minor irritations "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me" "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
| Assign | select something or someone for a specific purpose "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Devolve
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Convalesce | get over an illness or shock "The patient is recuperating" |
| Recover | get over an illness or shock "The patient is recuperating" |
| Recuperate | get over an illness or shock "The patient is recuperating" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Devolve | grow worse "Her condition deteriorated" "Conditions in the slums degenerated" "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
View English words with the unique letters used in devolve. Words With The Letters Delov
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Decadence | the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities |
| Decadency | the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities |
| Declension | a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms "the first declension in Latin" |
| Decline In Quality | |
| Degeneracy | moral perversion impairment of virtue and moral principles "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes" "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration" "its brothels its opium parlors its depravity" |
| Degeneration | passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form |
| Deterioration | process of changing to an inferior state |
| Devolution | the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) |
| Impairment | the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) |
| Worsening | changing something with the result that it becomes worse |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Decline | a downward slope or bend |
| Worsen | grow worse "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fade | gradually ceasing to be visible |
| Fatigue | labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues" |
| Jade | an old or over-worked horse |
| Languish | become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" |
| Pall | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) |
| Rot | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) |
| Tire | hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" |
| Waste | waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| Weary | exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved (7 letters) | 13 | 16 | beloved | ||
| Ladylove (8 letters) | 15 +1 | 17 | adellovy | ||
| Cold Wave (9 letters) | |||||
| Devolve (7 letters) | 14 | 17 | devolve | ||
| Loved (5 letters) | 9 | 11 | loved | ||
| Avowedly (8 letters) | 18 +4 | 19 +2 | avowedly | ||
| Lady Love (9 letters) |
Devolve Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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