Innovate vs Adapt - What's the difference?
innovate | adapt |
(obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
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* South
To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
To introduce (something) as new.
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between innovate and adapt
is that innovate is to introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new while adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted.In transitive terms the difference between innovate and adapt
is that innovate is to introduce (something) as new while adapt is 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.As verbs the difference between innovate and adapt
is that innovate is to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize 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.innovate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
- to innovate a word or an act
Derived terms
* innovative * innovation * innovatoryAnagrams
* ----adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
