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Adapted vs Seemly - What's the difference?

adapted | seemly | Related terms |

Adapted is a related term of seemly.


As a verb adapted

is (adapt).

As an adjective seemly is

(of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.

As an adverb seemly is

appropriately, fittingly.

adapted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adapt)

  • adapt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
  • (Jonathan Swift)

    References

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    seemly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
  • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
  • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].