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Lighthearted vs Adaptable - What's the difference?

lighthearted | adaptable |

As adjectives the difference between lighthearted and adaptable

is that lighthearted is joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive not depressed or sad while adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted.

lighthearted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive. Not depressed or sad.
    • The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
  • Enjoyable lack of seriousness, not grave.
    • His lighthearted banjo was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.

    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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