Adapt
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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; to proportion.
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
- (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
Adjective
Adapt (comparative more Adapt, superlative most Adapt)
Adverbs for Adapt
admirably; skilfully; eminently; artistically; mentally; physically; intellectually; professionally; ingeniously; mechanically; adroitly; dexterously; aesthetically; craftily; competently; consummately; deftly; matchlessly; cleverly; efficaciously; factitiously; gracefully; scientifically; diplomatically; inventively; ingeniously; peerlessly; incomparably.
Synonyms for Adapt
suit, accommodate, fit, conform, arrange, harmonize, settle, proportion, set, attune, regulate, modify, adjust.
Antonyms for Adapt
confuse, misfit, misplace, disarrange, disturb, displace, misapply, disorder, dismember, derange, dislocate.
Thesaurus
accustom; adapt to; adjust; adjust to; agree with; alter; ameliorate; arrange; assimilate; assimilate to; attune; be guided by; bend; better; break; break in; break up; capacitate; case harden; change; chime in with; comply; comply with; compose; condition; confirm; conform; convert; coordinate; correct; correspond; cut to; deform; denature; discipline; diversify; domesticate; domesticize; enable; equalize; equip; establish; fall in with; familiarize; fashion; fit; fix; follow; furnish; gear to; gentle; go by; habituate; harden; harmonize; homologate; homologize; housebreak; improve; instrument; instrumentate; inure; key to; make an adaptation; make conform; make plumb; make uniform; measure; meet; meliorate; melodize; mitigate; modify; modulate; mold; musicalize; mutate; naturalize; observe; orchestrate; orient; orient the map; orientate; overthrow; proportion; put in trim; put in tune; put to music; quadrate; qualify; re-create; realign; rebuild; reconcile; reconstruct; rectify; redesign; refit; reform; regulate; remake; remodel; renew; reshape; restructure; revamp; revive; right; ring the changes; rub off corners; score; season; set; set right; set to music; settle; shape; shift the scene; shuffle the cards; similarize; square; straighten; subvert; suit; sync; synchronize; tailor; tally with; tame; temper; train; transcribe; transpose; trim to; true; true up; tune; turn the scale; turn the tables; turn the tide; turn upside down; vary; wont; work a change; worsen; write; yield; acclimate; acclimatize; accommodate; accommodate with; accord;
Etymology
From Middle French adapter < Latin adaptare (“to fit to”) < ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”) < aptus (“fit”); see apt.
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