Versatile vs Adapt - What's the difference?
versatile | adapt |
Capable of doing many things competently.
Having varied uses or many functions.
Changeable or inconstant.
(biology) Capable of moving freely in all directions.
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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 versatile and adapt
is that versatile is capable of doing many things competently while adapt is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a verb adapt is
to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.versatile
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(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.