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Habituate vs Adapt - What's the difference?

habituate | adapt |

As verbs the difference between habituate and adapt

is that habituate is to make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.

As an adjective adapt is

adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

habituate

English

Verb

(habituat)
  • To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
  • * Sir K. Digby
    • our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime
  • * Tillotson
    • Men are first corrupted and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices.
  • To settle as an inhabitant.

    • Synonyms

    * accustom * inure

    Related terms

    * habit * habitual

    adapt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

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