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

One in the group is charged with having an altered firearm. —Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

Ramiro Cinto Lopez, 23, was charged with those same two charges and possession of an altered firearm. —Elizabeth Pritchett, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025

But also, the altered climate patterns are really important for bats. —Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025

The keyhole is an area in space where the gravity of a planet, like Jupiter, could change the asteroid's altered trajectory once more — potentially putting it on a collision course with our planet. —Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Sep. 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