CHANGED
Dictionary entry overview: What does changed mean?
• CHANGED (adjective)
The adjective CHANGED has 3 senses:
1. made or become different in nature or form
2. made or become different in some respect
3. changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism
Familiarity information: CHANGED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CHANGED (adjective)
Meaning:
Made or become different in nature or form
Context examples:
changed attitudes / changed styles of dress / a greatly changed country after the war
Similar:
denatured; denaturised; denaturized (changed in nature or natural quality)
exchanged (changed for (replaced by) something different)
transformed (given a completely different form or appearance)
varied (broken away from sameness or identity or duplication)
Antonym:
unchanged (not made or become different)
Meaning:
Made or become different in some respect
Context example:
he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress
Similar:
altered (changed in form or character without becoming something else)
Meaning:
Changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism
Context example:
metamorphic rocks
Similar:
metamorphic (characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
