All volte-face synonyms
vol·ta-face
V v verb volte-face
- zigzagging — Present participle of zigzag.
- get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- away — If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be.
- inversed — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inverse — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- zigzagged — a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- aways — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
noun volte-face
- about-face — An about-face is a complete change of attitude or opinion.
- backtracking — to return over the same course or route.
- contraversion — A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
- flipflop — Alternative form of flip-flop.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- gainsaying — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
- contraries — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- contras — (often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- contra — against
- contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
- antipole — the opposite pole