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Adoptive vs Adaptable - What's the difference?

adoptive | adaptable |

As adjectives the difference between adoptive and adaptable

is that adoptive is related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption while adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted.

adoptive

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.
    • My adoptive parents recently got to know my biological parents.

    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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