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Adoptable vs Adaptable - What's the difference?

adoptable | adaptable |

As adjectives the difference between adoptable and adaptable

is that adoptable is able to be adopted while adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted.

adoptable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be adopted.
    • Only after reaching 3 weeks of age are the infants considered adoptable.
  • Desirable to adopt.
    • Personability and youthful vigor make this puppy highly adoptable.

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    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

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