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adaptable
English
Etymology
adapt +? -able
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??dæpt?b?l/
Adjective
adaptable (comparative more adaptable, superlative most adaptable)
- Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
- Antonyms: unadaptable, inadaptable
Synonyms
- adaptive
Derived terms
- adaptability
- adaptableness
- adaptably
- inadaptable
- maladaptable
- unadaptable
Related terms
- adapt
Translations
References
- adaptable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Catalan
Etymology
adaptar +? -able
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?.d?p?ta.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.dap?ta.ble/
Adjective
adaptable (masculine and feminine plural adaptables)
- adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)
- Antonym: inadaptable
Derived terms
- adaptabilitat
Further reading
- “adaptable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From adapter +? -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dap.tabl/
Adjective
adaptable (plural adaptables)
- adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)
- Antonym: inadaptable
Derived terms
- adaptabilité
Further reading
- “adaptable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- adaptábel
Etymology
From adaptar +? -able.
Adjective
adaptable m or f (plural adaptables)
- adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)
- Antonyms: inadaptable, inadaptábel
Derived terms
- adabtabilidade
Further reading
- “adaptable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Scots
Etymology
adapt +? -able
Adjective
adaptable (comparative mair adaptable, superlative maist adaptable)
- adaptable
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
Etymology
From adaptar +? -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adab?table/, [a.ð?a???t?a.??le]
Adjective
adaptable (plural adaptables)
- adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)
- Antonym: inadaptable
Derived terms
- adaptabilidad
Further reading
- “adaptable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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adapt
English
Etymology
From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dæpt/
- Rhymes: -æpt
Verb
adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- Synonym: proportion
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
- This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
Translations
References
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- APDTA
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dap(t)/
Verb
adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)
- to adapt
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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