What does misalter mean?
Misalter means (transitive) To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before..
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before..
These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof.
The tailors were busily at work for the men ; fitting and misfitting, altering and misaltering, and making clothes in every possible way except the right one, for right the clothes of man will never be so long as ever they are intended to fit.
A misaltered line is one not altered correctly.
Use misalter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misalter means (transitive) To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.