Adopt vs Unadoptable - What's the difference?
adopt | unadoptable |
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
That cannot be adopted; unsuitable for adoption.
* 1973 , Colette Taube Dywasuk, Adoption — Is It for You?
* 1998 , Elizabeth Hess, Lost and Found
As a verb adopt
is (with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.As an adjective unadoptable is
that cannot be adopted; unsuitable for adoption.adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .
unadoptable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even children with minor or correctable handicaps such as harelip, cleft palate, crossed eyes, or clubfoot were classed as "unadoptable ".
- At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.
