UNALTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaltered mean? 

• UNALTERED (adjective)
  The adjective UNALTERED has 1 sense:

1. remaining in an original state

  Familiarity information: UNALTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNALTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remaining in an original state

Synonyms:

unaltered; unchanged

Context example:

persisting unaltered through time

Similar:

dateless; timeless (unaffected by time)

in-situ; in situ; unmoved (being in the original position; not having been moved)

unedited (not changed by editing)

unreduced (not altered by reduction)

unrevised (not improved or brought up to date)

Antonym:

altered (changed in form or character without becoming something else)

 Context examples 

What she always had been to me, she still was; wholly unaltered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The parent document remains content is unaltered.

(Addendum, NCI Thesaurus)

Dave and Sol-leks alone were unaltered, though they were made irritable by the unending squabbling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Bennu, which is only slightly wider than the height of the Empire State Building, may contain unaltered material from the very beginning of our solar system.

(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)

Remain in force or carry on without letup; keep or maintain in unaltered condition; exist in time or space without stop or interruption.

(Continue, NCI Thesaurus)

The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing as change on earth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)