altered

1. 1.

   changed in form or character without becoming something else

   “the altered policy promised success”

   “following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization”

   “he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing”

   Antonymsunaltered

   Similaradjustedchangedemendedparaphrasticrevised
2. 2.

   having testicles or ovaries removed

   Synonymsneutered

   Similarcastrated
3. 3.

   changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose

   “seeds precisely adapted to the area”

   “instructions altered to suit the children's different ages”

   Synonymsadapted

   Similarmodified

Other forms of altered

comparative

alteredder·

superlative

altereddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about altered

What does altered mean?

altered means "changed in form or character without becoming something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in altered?

altered has 2 syllables: al-tered. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˈɔltɚd/.

What is another word for altered?

Close synonyms include neutered, adapted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of altered?

The recorded antonyms are unaltered.

Is altered a common word?

altered is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.