As adjectives the difference between adaptable and controlling
is that adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted while controlling is having control over a person or thing.
As a verb controlling is
.
adaptable
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
* {{quote-book, author=Sabine Baring-Gould, title=, year=1901
, passage=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.}}
Related terms
* adapt
* adaptability
* adaptableness
* adaptably
* adaptation
* adaptational
* adaptative
* adaptatively
* adaptativeness
* adaptedness
* adapter
* adaption
* adaptional
* adaptitude
* adaptive
* adaptively
* adaptiveness
* adaptly
* adaptness
* adaptorial
References
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controlling
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Having control over a person or thing.
- His mother is very controlling .
Synonyms
* dominant, domineering, manipulative
Verb
(head)