unaltered

[uhn-awl-terd]

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adjective

not altered, changed, or modified: We approved the unaltered designs.
(of an animal) not neutered.

Origin of unaltered

First recorded in 1545–55; un-¹ + alter + -ed²

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Examples from the Web for unaltered

Contemporary Examples

So what did we discover in seeing the raw, unaltered photographs of Dunham?
The Vogue-ification of Lena Dunham
Lizzie Crocker
January 21, 2014

Historical Examples

It had been her wish to keep it, in its sweet familiarity, unaltered till the last.
Tiverton Tales
Alice Brown
But her voice and her smile were unaltered; and she would not listen to any words of sympathy.
Hetty's Strange History
Anonymous
Whatever his poetical achievements, the main fact is unaltered.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy
Paul Jones.
Letters from Provence, Languedoc, and Dauphine say that the situation there is unaltered.
The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories
Andrew Lang
Keep them out of your beer and it remains for ever unaltered.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2
John Tyndall

British Dictionary definitions for unaltered

unaltered

adjective

not altered; unchanged

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Word Origin and History for unaltered

adj.

1550s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of alter.

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Examples from the Web for unaltered

Contemporary Examples

So what did we discover in seeing the raw, unaltered photographs of Dunham?

Historical Examples

It had been her wish to keep it, in its sweet familiarity, unaltered till the last.

But her voice and her smile were unaltered; and she would not listen to any words of sympathy.

Whatever his poetical achievements, the main fact is unaltered.

Letters from Provence, Languedoc, and Dauphine say that the situation there is unaltered.

Keep them out of your beer and it remains for ever unaltered.

unaltered

Word Origin and History for unaltered

adj.

Origin of unaltered