Adapted vs Accustomed - What's the difference?
adapted | accustomed |
(adapt)
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
Familiar through use; usual; customary.
* An accustomed action - Shakespeare, Macbeth, V-v
Inured to; adapted to existing conditions.
(obsolete) Frequented by customers
* A well accustomed shop - Smollett
(accustom)
As verbs the difference between adapted and accustomed
is that adapted is (adapt) while accustomed is (accustom).As an adjective accustomed is
familiar through use; usual; customary.adapted
English
Verb
(head)adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
* adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptorReferences
*accustomed
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Adjective
(en adjective)- accustomed to walking long distances
- accustomed to cold