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

Even the most recent, powerful AI models, including OpenAI’s o1-preview, which was specifically designed to perform better on reasoning tasks, experienced a drop-off in performance on the altered dataset the researchers created. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024

The deluxe version of Secret of Us also features a slightly altered cover photo of Abrams leaning her mouth on her knuckle and featuring baby blue font, instead of the original yellow lettering. —Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024

The tune appears to have been released in different forms, on separate collections, under the two slightly altered titles. —Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Your walking form may also become altered while using an under desk treadmill. —Renee Cherry, SELF, 10 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1