adapt
Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
Adjective
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
- This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt. - c. 1709, Merlin's Prophecy, Jonathan Swift:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aptos Latin aptus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus ▲ Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin aptō Latin adaptōder. Middle English *adapten English adapt From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Forms
Verb
- To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
Synonyms: proportion
- To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- to adapt a story for the stage
- to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
- To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- to bring out a play adapted from the French
- a word of an adapted form
- To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Forms
Related
adaptability adaptableness adaptably adaptational adaptatively adaptativeness adaptedness adaptional adaptive adaptively adaptiveness adaptorial
Derived
adaptable adaptate adaptation adaptative adapter adaption adaptitude adaptly adaptness adaptogen adaptor coadapt counteradapt deadapt maladapt misadapt nonadapting osmoadapt overadapt preadapt readapt unadapt