Synonyms of transmogrify

transmogrify

verb

as in to mutate

Related Words

• mutate
• deform
• disfigure
• redefine
• distort
• refashion
• redesign
• revise
• reengineer
• supplant
• remodel
• replace
• remake
• regenerate
• transform
• rework
• adjust
• recast
• redo
• modify
• alter
• revamp
• transmute
• vary
• transfigure
• substitute
• metamorphose
• displace
• transubstantiate
• transpose
• alchemize
• convert
• make over

Synonym Chooser

How is the word transmogrify different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of transmogrify are convert, metamorphose, transfigure, transform, and transmute. While all these words mean "to change a thing into a different thing," transmogrify suggests a strange or preposterous metamorphosis.

a story in which a frog is transmogrified into a prince

When is convert a more appropriate choice than transmogrify?

While the synonyms convert and transmogrify are close in meaning, convert implies a change fitting something for a new or different use or function.

converted the study into a nursery

When is it sensible to use metamorphose instead of transmogrify?

The meanings of metamorphose and transmogrify largely overlap; however, metamorphose suggests an abrupt or startling change induced by or as if by magic or a supernatural power.

awkward girls metamorphosed into graceful ballerinas

In what contexts can transfigure take the place of transmogrify?

The synonyms transfigure and transmogrify are sometimes interchangeable, but transfigure implies a change that exalts or glorifies.

joy transfigured her face

When can transform be used instead of transmogrify?

While in some cases nearly identical to transmogrify, transform implies a major change in form, nature, or function.

transformed a small company into a corporate giant

When might transmute be a better fit than transmogrify?

In some situations, the words transmute and transmogrify are roughly equivalent. However, transmute implies transforming into a higher element or thing.

attempted to transmute lead into gold

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of transmogrify

During the negotiations between Obama and Raúl, there was still the idea that somehow parts of the revolution—its socialist project—could be saved, and that Cuba could somehow transmogrify into a fairer, more modern place with a social cradle. —Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

Unlike conventional corn syrup, a form of glucose derived from starch that has been around for over 200 years, high fructose corn syrup wasn’t developed until after World War II, when scientists in Japan began tinkering with the grain, hoping to transmogrify this staple into new products. —Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025

In that freedom, hip-hop music transmogrified from songs to studies. —Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2023

After 40 years of getting worked over, Mercury would be transmogrified, or almost magically altered, and totally kaput. —Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023

Or change its identity or transmogrify into a different social function of a space. —Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2023

For those looking to dig deeper, here are the best books that deconstruct, analyze, and even transmogrify the star known as Marilyn Monroe. —Nathan Smith, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022

For most basketball fans, that joy will transmogrify into disappointment, sadness or even fleeting anger once their favorite team is eliminated. —Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021

In the 1980s and 1990s this transmogrified into an attack on science. —Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 July 2020

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