Ingrate vs Adapt - What's the difference?
ingrate | adapt |
An ungrateful person.
* 1843', But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that '''ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods. — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit
* 1860–61': "Speak the truth, you '''ingrate !" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, ''Great Expectations
* 1893', Out of my sight, '''ingrate ! — W.S.Gilbert, ''Utopia Limited
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.
As adjectives the difference between ingrate and adapt
is that ingrate is (obsolete|poetic) ungrateful while adapt is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a noun ingrate
is an ungrateful person.As a verb adapt is
to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.ingrate
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Quotations
* 1590', Yet in his mind malitious and '''ingrate — Edmund Spenser, ''The Faerie Queene * 1596', But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this '''ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, ''King Henry IV, Part 1 * 1671', Who, for so many benefits received, / Turned recreant to God, '''ingrate and false — John Milton, ''Paradise RegainedNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.