adapt
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of adapt
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
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verb
- (transitive)To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
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(transitive)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”
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(transitive)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”
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(intransitive)To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
“They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.”
adj
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Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
“This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.”
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Etymology
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 ▲ Latin…
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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 ▲ 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.
Words you can make from adapt
15 playable · top: ATAP (6 pts)
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