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adaptable

adj
/əˈdæptəbəl/US

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 -ō Latin -tō Latin aptō Latin adaptōder. Middle English *adapten English adapt Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English adaptable From adapt + -able.

  1. derived from adaptāre
  2. inherited from *adapten✻
  3. suffixed as adaptable — “adapt + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being adapted.

    • an adaptable electric plug for international use

  2. Willing or able to adapt to circumstances

    Willing or able to adapt to circumstances; flexible.

    • She had had to turn out of her own room to accommodate him, but if one kept an apartment-house one had to be adaptable; […]
    • Joan was adaptable, and easily fell in with the prevalent tone. She played her small jokes on each, and this readily dissolved restraint, and put all on terms of easy friendship.

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Derived

adaptability, adaptableness, adaptably, haloadaptable, inadaptable, maladaptable, nonadaptable, superadaptable, unadaptable

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA