Synonyms of transposed

transposed

verb

past tense of transpose

1

as in transformed

to change in form, appearance, or use

the snappy pop song was transposed into a ballad through a reworking of instrumentation and a change in key

Synonyms & Similar Words

• transformed
• converted
• transmuted
• reworked
• metamorphosed
• remade
• transfigured
• replaced
• remodeled
• adjusted
• altered
• modified
• recast
• transubstantiated
• alchemized
• revised
• made over
• redesigned
• redefined
• refashioned
• mutated
• distorted
• deformed
• supplanted
• disfigured
• substituted
• transmogrified
• reengineered
• regenerated
• revamped
• varied
• redid
• displaced

2

as in relocated

to change the place or position of

after the ex-governor's scandals belatedly came to light, his portrait was transposed to a quiet corner of the statehouse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relocated
• removed
• transferred
• shifted
• moved
• transported
• replaced
• dislocated
• repositioned
• disturbed
• displaced
• conveyed
• carried
• transmitted
• hauled
• transplanted
• supplanted
• altered
• superseded
• budged
• modified
• revised
• bore
• reworked
• carted
• toted
• drove
• remodeled
• lugged
• refashioned
• remade
• varied
• made over
• redid
• revamped

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• set
• fixed
• secured
• anchored
• stabilized
• froze
• moored
• embedded
• rooted
• lodged
• implanted
• entrenched
• ingrained

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of transposed

Two couples, one dinner party — that’s the bare-bones basis of The Invite, an adaptation of the 2020 Spanish movie The People Upstairs that feels tailor-made to be franchised, translated to just about any language, and transposed onto just about any upper-middle-class milieu. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026

The caps-lock title and eff-you art work, in which the artist’s image is transposed onto a hand as a triumphant middle finger, overshoots the tone. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 11 June 2026

The underdog framing, the embassy accounts running wild on X, the cultural-reference dunking on a bloated American president—these are Ukrainian moves, transposed to a different war. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 27 May 2026

Books were produced collaboratively; writers sent off handwritten manuscripts to printers, who transposed them onto a printing press before setting them to paper. — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

Tardieu has transposed the story to the Normandy countryside for her adaptation which is due to begin shooting next month with Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry in the cast. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 May 2026

There was 24-hour radio news, which Ted Turner had used as a model or a format that would be transposed onto television. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 May 2026

Director Harry Lighton transposed the story from the 1970s to the present, casting a hulking Alexander Skarsgård as the gorgeous and emotionally remote biker Ray, and Melling as the shy, diminutive parking attendant who submits himself to Ray. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026