Learn English – Opposite of “retrofit”

antonyms

To retrofit is to take a new item and make it work with something old.

What is the word to take an old item and make it work with something new?

For example, someone could retrofit a new character by modding an old game. Retrofitting an old character into a new game doesn't sound correct, since you're doing the exact opposite of retrofitting. What word am I looking for?

Best Answer

I suspect that there may be no correct answer. I looked up this question, and it gave me pro- and antero- as antonyms. Profit. No. Anterofit. Doesn't even exist.

There may not be an antonym for this word. However, there's a myriad of other words that mean what you want, such as:

  • Update
  • Refit
  • Modernize
  • Renovate
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