Metamorphic

Quick meaning: Metamorphic is an adjective meaning Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character.

Meaning

Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) Pertaining to metamorphosis.
2. Of or relating to the Metamorphic Technique, a form of massage influenced by reflexology.
3. (mineralogy) A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.
4. (geology) Pertaining to metamorphism; having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat and/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).

Example Sentences

Yu Shan or Jade Mountain, 3997 meters, is the highest mountain in Taiwan and all of east Asia. It is built of metamorphic rock, as are all the mountains in Taiwan.

That heaven in our mind that seeks to reveal itself to us in all its brilliance during the multitudinous writhings of whatever metamorphic pilgrimage we must make during this era of darkness and human folly.

Word Forms

• metamorphics

Synonyms for metamorphic

Depending on context, synonyms include changed, epimorphic, hemimetabolous, holometabolous, holometabolic, hemimetabolic.

Antonyms for metamorphic

Common opposites include nonmetamorphic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heterometabolic, holometabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetabolic, holometabolous, epimorphic.

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