adaptive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation

   Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

   • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it issued a final rule allowing what’s called “adaptive driving beam headlights” on new vehicles. It will go into effect when published in the Federal Register in the next few days.
   • The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.
   • That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.
2. 2

   Capable of being adapted or of adapting

   Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.

3. 3

   Of a trait

   Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.

The neighborhood

• synonymadaptative
• antonymmaladaptive
• neighboradapt
• neighboradaptability
• neighboradaptable
• neighboradaptableness
• neighboradaptably
• neighboradaptation
• neighboradaptational
• neighboradaptationary
• neighboradaptative
• neighboradaptatively
• neighboradaptativeness
• neighboradapted