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Qualified vs Adapted - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between qualified and adapted

is that qualified is past tense of qualify while adapted is past tense of adapt.

As an adjective qualified

is meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.

qualified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
  • Restricted or limited by conditions.
    • Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.

    Antonyms

    * unqualified

    Verb

    (head)
  • (qualify)

    • adapted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (adapt)

    • 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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