Engaged vs Adaptable - What's the difference?
engaged | adaptable |
(engage)
Agreed to be married.
Busy or employed.
(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
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.}}
As adjectives the difference between engaged and adaptable
is that engaged is agreed to be married while adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted.As a verb engaged
is (engage).engaged
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I tried calling, but she (''or'' her phone) was engaged .
