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adoptive

adj
/əˈdɒptɪv/

Etymology

From adopt + -ive.

  1. derived from adoptō
  2. derived from adopter
  3. suffixed as adoptive — “adopt + ive”

Definitions

  1. Related through adoption.

    • My adoptive parents recently got to know my biological parents.

  2. Pertaining to adoption.

The neighborhood

  • antonymbiologicalantonym(s) of “relation”
  • antonymbloodantonym(s) of “relation”

Derived

adoptive father, adoptively, adoptive mother, adoptive parent, adoptive sibling, nonadoptive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adoptive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01adoptive02adoption03parents04parent05children06childer07child08son

A definitional loop anchored at adoptive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at adoptive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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