What are some opposite words for alter?
Antonyms for alter
ˈɔl təral·ter
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term alter.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
alterverb
To change is distinctively to make a thing other than it has been, in some respect at least; to exchange to put or take something else in its place; to alter is ordinarily to change partially, to make different in one or more particulars. To exchange is often to transfer ownership; as, to exchange city for country property. Change is often used in the sense of exchange; as, to change horses. To transmute is to change the qualities while the substance remains the same; as, to transmute the baser metals into gold. To transform is to change form or appearance, with or without deeper and more essential change; it is less absolute than transmute, tho sometimes used for that word, and is often used in a spiritual sense as transmute could not be; "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," Rom. xii, 2. Transfigure is, as in its Scriptural use, to change in an exalted and glorious spiritual way; "Jesus ... was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light," Matt. xvii, 1, 2. To metamorphose is to make some remarkable change, ordinarily in external qualities, but often in structure, use, or chemical constitution, as of a caterpillar into a butterfly, of the stamens of a plant into petals, or of the crystalline structure of rocks, hence called "metamorphic rocks," as when a limestone is metamorphosed into a marble. To vary is to change from time to time, often capriciously. To commute is to put something easier, lighter, milder, or in some way more favorable in place of that which is commuted; as, to commute capital punishment to imprisonment for life; to commute daily fares on a railway to a monthly payment. To convert (Latin con, with, and verto, turn) is to primarily turn about, and signifies to change in form, character, use, etc., through a wide range of relations; iron is converted into steel, joy into grief, a sinner into a saint. To turn is a popular word for change in any sense short of the meaning of exchange, being often equivalent to alter, convert, transform, transmute, etc. We modify or qualify a statement which might seem too strong; we modify it by some limitation, qualify it by some addition.
Antonyms:
abide, bide, continue, endure, hold, keep, persist, remain, retain, staySynonyms:
change, change, commute, convert, diversify, exchange, metamorphose, modify, qualify, shift, substitute, transfigure, transform, transmute, turn, vary, veerPreposition:
To change a home toilet for a street dress; to change from a caterpillar to or into a butterfly; to change clothes with a beggar.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
alter
Antonyms:
retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify, stabilitateSynonyms:
substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel
Princeton's WordNet
change, alter, modifyverb
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"
Synonyms:
change, interchange, interpolate, modify, vary, qualify, commute, shift, exchange, neuter, falsify, castrate, spay, convert, switch, transfer, deepenchange, alter, varyverb
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"
Synonyms:
change, interchange, variegate, interpolate, motley, modify, vary, commute, shift, exchange, neuter, falsify, castrate, spay, depart, convert, switch, transfer, deviate, diverge, deepenalterverb
make an alteration to
"This dress needs to be altered"
Synonyms:
change, vary, modify, spay, neuter, falsify, interpolate, castrateinterpolate, alter, falsifyverb
insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Synonyms:
warp, fudge, interpolate, misrepresent, cook, extrapolate, modify, vary, manipulate, spay, wangle, neuter, falsify, castrate, distort, garble, fake, changealter, neuter, spay, castrateverb
remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat spayed?"
Synonyms:
change, vary, modify, demasculinise, demasculinize, expurgate, bowdlerize, shorten, spay, neuter, falsify, emasculate, interpolate, castrate, bowdlerise
Editors Contribution
remain
to change not to remain the same.
i will alter the speech.
Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017
How to use alter in a sentence?
George will essentially be seen as a centrist, given that the Fed is on track to raise rates at least two more times this year, having George as a voting member is not going to alter the outcome.
The divisions did not disappear just because they had had a polite agreement to disagree, it got them through the referendum campaign but it didn't alter the situation that there were significant figures in the party who wanted to come out and those who wanted to stay in.
We want to make sure there is no question that when we got it we treated it properly [and] we didn't alter it any way.
There’s not much data to encourage its use, there’s no evidence that taking it is going to alter anything, and there’s not a lot of information on its safety as a supplement.
I think it's reasonable to say that partial mobilization probably will not reflect itself on the battlefield for several months at the earliest, and could expand Russia's ability to sustain this war, but not alter its outcome.
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