altered

adjective

al·​tered ˈȯl-tərd 

1

: made different in some way

… she addressed me again, speaking in very altered tones; so altered, that I hardly recognised them as hers.

—Wilkie Collins

… no great change had taken place inside him, but his exterior was visibly altered.

—Booth Tarkington

2

: castrated sense 1a

I've noticed that my altered cats and my older cats have more dandruff than the unaltered and younger ones.

—Susie Page

Examples of altered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Posts show whole displays of clothing for brands like Walmart’s Wonder Nation and Target’s Auden at stores across the country with altered tags. —Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025

The series creator and executive producer previews Rhea Seehorn's reluctant pursuit to save an altered world. —EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025

This suggests that in the absence of major extinction, forest ecosystems and their pollinators could reestablish into very similar communities even after a very long period of altered climate. —Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Dissociative agents such as ketamine, which can produce altered states of consciousness, are also included as a category of their own. —Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for altered

• unaltered
• faltered