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Adapt Common

Adapt has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

2

adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

"We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

3

To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

"The interior designer had to adapt the floor plan to accommodate the client's need for an open kitchen and dining area."

Adjective
1

Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

"The new policy doesn't seem to adapt well to our local market conditions, so we need to revise it again."

Broader Terms (hypernyms)
change get used to
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
adjust gear fit anglicise shoehorn tailor domesticate Christianize naturalize electrify transcribe readjust readapt assimilate focus acclimatize match obey square
Rhyming Words
apt capt tapt rapt wrapt trapt unapt leapt clapt inapt conapt usucapt deadapt readapt overapt coadapt periapt de adapt kinohapt misadapt
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