Synonyms of mutate

mutate

verb

ˈmyü-ˌtāt 

as in to change

to pass from one form, state, or level to another

colored lights that slowly mutate from green to blue and so on across the color spectrum

Synonyms & Similar Words

• change
• vary
• shift
• fluctuate
• morph
• snap
• metamorphose
• improve
• transmute
• deteriorate
• better
• worsen
• turn around
• vacillate
• waver
• teeter
• seesaw

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stabilize
• plateau

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mutate

The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026

Every texture is an independent agent with its own membrane in the mix; percussion rubs and scrapes against your attention, while mutating synth patches burble in the periphery. — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026

Over evolutionary time, this theory goes, one of those copies mutated and evolved to give rise to a second photosystem that uses oxygen to harvest energy more efficiently. — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026

In the work, every time there was a tremor, the landscape would mutate, almost accelerating from summer to autumn and back again. — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 10 June 2026