Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb alter

5 senses of alter

Sense 1
change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 2
change, alter, vary -- (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season")

Sense 3
alter -- (make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 4
interpolate, alter, falsify -- (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)
       => edit, redact -- (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages")

Sense 5
alter, neuter, spay, castrate -- (remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?")
       => sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix -- (make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized")

Antonyms of adj altered

3 senses of altered

Sense 1
altered (vs. unaltered) -- (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"- Charles Dickens)

unaltered (vs. altered), unchanged -- (remaining in an original state; "persisting unaltered through time")
        => dateless, timeless -- (unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty")
        => in-situ, unmoved -- (being in the original position; not having been moved; "the archeologists could date the vase because it was in-situ"; "an in-situ investigator")
        => unedited -- (not changed by editing)
        => unreduced -- (not altered by reduction)
        => unrevised -- (not improved or brought up to date; "the book is still unrevised")

Sense 2
altered, neutered -- (having testicles or ovaries removed)

INDIRECT (VIA castrated) -> uncastrated -- (not castrated)

Sense 3
adapted, altered -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA modified) -> unmodified -- (not changed in form or character)

Similarity of adj altered

3 senses of altered

Sense 1
altered (vs. unaltered) -- (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"- Charles Dickens)
       => adjusted -- ((especially of garments) having the fit or style adjusted; "for my wedding I had my mother's wedding dress altered to fit me")
       => changed -- (made or become different in some respect; "he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress")
       => emended, edited -- (improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text")
       => paraphrastic -- (altered by paraphrasing)
       => revised -- (improved or brought up to date; "a revised edition")

Sense 2
altered, neutered -- (having testicles or ovaries removed)
       => castrated (vs. uncastrated), unsexed -- (deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes)

Sense 3
adapted, altered -- (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")
       => modified (vs. unmodified) -- (changed in form or character; "their modified stand made the issue more acceptable"; "the performance of the modified aircraft was much improved")