Synonyms of mutating

mutating

verb

present participle of mutate

as in changing

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

• changing
• varying
• shifting
• fluctuating
• snapping
• morphing
• improving
• metamorphosing
• deteriorating
• transmuting
• worsening
• bettering
• turning around
• vacillating
• wavering
• teetering
• seesawing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stabilizing
• plateauing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mutating

Stars Gianna Jun as Professor Se-jeong, who is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference, causing authorities to seal the facility. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is struggling with his mutating powers — and the fact that his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) are making memories at MIT with zero recollection of their former pal. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Aug. 2026

Diversity and reinvention Just as American culture is continuously mutating, American music is constantly being reinvented. — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 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

Things reportedly spiral after a strange signal hidden beneath the city’s subway tunnels begins mutating the station’s broadcasts — and possibly its listeners. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 14 May 2026

The unlikely pair of characters must fend off hostile robots and mutating creatures in a quest to return to planet Earth. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 May 2026

The precautions are necessary, says Colleen Jonsson, a virologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, because of the possibility of the virus mutating to become more virulent. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 6 May 2026

Not just as a video game adaptation, but as a snapshot of cinema mutating in real time. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026