Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to adapt
Participle: adapted
Gerund: adapting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | adapt |
| you | adapt |
| he;she;it | adapts |
| we | adapt |
| you | adapt |
| they | adapt |
Perfect
| I | have adapted |
| you | have adapted |
| he;she;it | has adapted |
| we | have adapted |
| you | have adapted |
| they | have adapted |
Past
| I | adapted |
| you | adapted |
| he;she;it | adapted |
| we | adapted |
| you | adapted |
| they | adapted |
Pluperfect
| I | had adapted |
| you | had adapted |
| he;she;it | had adapted |
| we | had adapted |
| you | had adapted |
| they | had adapted |
Future
| I | will adapt |
| you | will adapt |
| he;she;it | will adapt |
| we | will adapt |
| you | will adapt |
| they | will adapt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have adapted |
| you | will have adapted |
| he;she;it | will have adapted |
| we | will have adapted |
| you | will have adapted |
| they | will have adapted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | adapt |
| you | adapt |
| he;she;it | adapt |
| we | adapt |
| you | adapt |
| they | adapt |
Perfect
| I | have adapted |
| you | have adapted |
| he;she;it | have adapted |
| we | have adapted |
| you | have adapted |
| they | have adapted |
Imperfect
| I | adapted |
| you | adapted |
| he;she;it | adapted |
| we | adapted |
| you | adapted |
| they | adapted |
Pluperfect
| I | had adapted |
| you | had adapted |
| he;she;it | had adapted |
| we | had adapted |
| you | had adapted |
| they | had adapted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would adapt |
| you | would adapt |
| he;she;it | would adapt |
| we | would adapt |
| you | would adapt |
| they | would adapt |
Perfect
| I | would have adapted |
| you | would have adapted |
| he;she;it | would have adapted |
| we | would have adapted |
| you | would have adapted |
| they | would have adapted |
Imperative
| you | adapt |
| we | Let's adapt |
| you | adapt |
Verbs conjugated like 'adapt'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'adapt'
adact,
adopt,
adaunt,
adaw,
adempt,
admit,
adult,
apt,
await,
coadapt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to change the form or structure of
- alter, amend, change, convert, differentiate, innovate, metamorphose, modify, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate, vary
- to make familiar by use; to adjust or adapt to a change
- accommodate, accustom, adjust, compensate, habituate, inure, season, wont
- adjust
- arrange, accommodate, acclimatize, calculate, accustom, square, fashion, tailor
Antonyms
- adjust
- disarrange, derange, confuse, disorder
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1610 (implied in
adapted) "to fit (something, for some purpose)," from M.Fr.
adapter, from L.
adaptare "adjust," from
ad- "to" +
aptare "join," from
aptus "fitted" (see apt). Meaning "to undergo modification so as to fit new circumstances" (intr.) is from 1956.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ptós
10. Proto-Italic *aptos
11. Latin aptus
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
17. Proto-Italic *-ājō
18. Proto-Italic *-āō
19. Latin -ō
20. Latin apiō
21. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
22. Proto-Italic *-tos
23. Latin -tus
24. ▲
25. Latin -ō
26. Latin -tō
27. Latin aptō
28. Latin adaptōder.
29. Middle English *adapten
30. English adapt
31. From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Verbs referencing "adapt"
Finnish with old forms
adaptoida.
Sample Sentences
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“ Dare say he may be; never was much adapted to anything that I set him about, I'll be bound. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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* * * * * At SOUTH BOSTON, as it is called, in a situation excellently adapted for the purpose, several charitable institutions are clustered together. One of these, is the State Hospital for the insane; admirably conducted on those enlightened principles of conciliation and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and understood: such as ‘Love one another’—‘God remembers the smallest creature in his creation: ’ and straightforward advice of that nature. The books and tasks of these smallest of scholars, were adapted, in the same judicious manner, to their childish powers. When we had examined these lessons, four morsels of girls (of whom one was blind ) sang a little song, about the merry month of May, which I [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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He handled his text in all kinds of ways, and twisted it into all manner of shapes; but always ingeniously, and with a rude eloquence, well adapted to the comprehension of his hearers. Indeed if I be not mistaken, he studied their sympathies and understandings much more than the display of his own powers. His imagery was all drawn from the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and prosaic speeches. It is an elegant chamber to look at, but a singularly bad one for all purposes of hearing. The Senate, which is smaller, is free from this objection, and is exceedingly well adapted to the uses for which it is designed. The sittings, I need hardly add, take place in the day; and the parliamentary forms are modelled on those of the old country.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in a large open space, each society gathered round its own banners, and listening in silent attention to its own orator. The speeches, judging from the little I could hear of them, were certainly adapted to the occasion, as having that degree of relationship to cold water which wet blankets may claim: but the main thing was the conduct and appearance of the audience throughout the day; and that was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] will hear one phrase repeated over and over and over again to the most extraordinary extent. It is an ordinary and unpromising phrase enough, being neither more nor less than ‘Yes, sir; ’ but it is adapted to every variety of circumstance, and fills up every pause in the conversation. Thus:—
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] but a few days before, by the Governor General. It will be a handsome, spacious edifice, approached by a long avenue, which is already planted and made available as a public walk. The town is well adapted for wholesome exercise at all seasons, for the footways in the thoroughfares which lie beyond the principal street, are planked like floors, and kept in very good and clean repair.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Between nine and ten o’clock at night, we arrived at Lebanon which is renowned for its warm baths, and for a great hotel, well adapted, I have no doubt, to the gregarious taste of those seekers after health or pleasure who repair here, but inexpressibly comfortless to me. We were shown into an immense apartment, lighted by two dim [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of his own, unsubject to the will of another. All these thoughts were rolling and seething in George's breast, as he was pensively leaning his head on his hand, watching his wife, as she was adapting to her slender and pretty form the articles of man's attire, in which it was deemed safest she should make her escape.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)