Adapted vs Seemly - What's the difference?
adapted | seemly | Related terms |
(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.
(of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
* Shakespeare
* Hooker
Appropriately, fittingly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
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
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
*seemly
English
Adjective
(er)- His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
- I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
- Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Synonyms
* appositeAntonyms
* unseemlyDerived terms
* * * seemlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].