adapt

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdæpt/

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• Rhymes: -æpt

Verb

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

   Synonym: proportion

2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.

   to adapt a story for the stage

   to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

3. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.

   to bring out a play adapted from the French

   a word of an adapted form

4. (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

   They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Derived terms

• adaptable
• adaptate
• adaptation
• adaptative
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptitude
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptogen
• adaptor
• coadapt
• counteradapt
• deadapt
• maladapt
• misadapt
• nonadapting
• osmoadapt
• overadapt
• preadapt
• readapt
• unadapt

Related terms

terms related to adapt (verb)

• adaptability
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptational
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness
• adaptedness
• adaptional
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptiveness
• adaptorial

Translations

to make suitable

Albanian: adapt Bulgarian: приспособя́вам (bg) (prisposobjávam), приспособявам се (prisposobjavam se) Catalan: adaptar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 適應 / 适应 (zh) (shìyìng) Czech: adaptovat, přizpůsobit, upravit (cs) Dutch: aanpassen (nl) Esperanto: adapti (eo), akomodi (eo) Finnish: sovittaa (fi), mukauttaa (fi), sopeuttaa (fi), soveltaa (fi) French: adapter (fr) Gallurese: adattà German: anpassen (de), angleichen (de), anwenden (de), einrichten (de) Haitian Creole: adapte Hungarian: illeszt (hu), hozzáilleszt (hu), hozzáigazít (hu) Interlingua: adaptar Irish: oiriúnaigh Italian: adattare (it) Japanese: 適応する (ja) (てきおうする, tekiō suru) Korean: 적응하다 (ko) (jeogeunghada) Latin: adaptō Luxembourgish: adaptéieren Maori: urutau, whakaarotau Mongolian: тааруулах (taaruulax) Norwegian: Bokmål: tilpasse, anpasse Polish: adaptować (pl) impf or pf, zaadaptować pf Portuguese: adaptar (pt) Romanian: adapta (ro) Russian: приспоса́бливать (ru) impf (prisposáblivatʹ), приспосо́бить (ru) pf (prisposóbitʹ); подгоня́ть (ru) impf (podgonjátʹ), подогна́ть (ru) pf (podognátʹ), адапти́ровать (ru) (adaptírovatʹ) Sardinian: Campidanese: aggalai Sassarese: adattà Slovak: prispôsobiť Spanish: adaptar (es), ajustar (es) Swedish: anpassa (sv) Tagalog: iangkop Turkish: uydurmak (tr), adapte etmek (tr) Ukrainian: пристосо́вувати impf (prystosóvuvaty), пристосува́ти pf (prystosuváty), адаптува́ти (uk) impf or pf (adaptuváty) Welsh: addasu (cy)

to fit by alteration

Bulgarian: нагласям (bg) (naglasjam) Catalan: adaptar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 適應 / 适应 (zh) (shìyìng) Czech: adaptovat, přizpůsobit, upravit (cs) Dutch: aanpassen (nl), bewerken (nl) Esperanto: alaranĝi, alfari Finnish: sovittaa (fi) French: s'adapter (fr) German: anpassen (de), modifizieren (de), überarbeiten (de), umarbeiten (de), adaptieren (de), umschreiben (de), einpassen (de), bearbeiten (de) Hungarian: átdolgoz (hu), adaptál (hu), átállít (hu) Italian: adattare (it) Maori: urutau, whāurutau, whakaurutau Polish: adaptować (pl) impf or pf, zaadaptować pf Portuguese: adaptar (pt) Slovak: prispôsobiť Spanish: adaptar (es) Turkish: uymak (tr), uyum sağlamak (tr), adapte olmak (tr)

to make by altering

Bulgarian: преработвам (bg) (prerabotvam) Catalan: adaptar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 改編 / 改编 (zh) (gǎibiān), 改寫 / 改写 (zh) (gǎixiě) Czech: adaptovat Dutch: bewerken (nl) Finnish: mukauttaa (fi) French: adapter (fr) German: herrichten (de), rezipieren (de), nachempfinden (de), nachgestalten Hungarian: átültet (hu), adaptál (hu) Interlingua: adaptar Italian: adattare (it) Portuguese: adaptar (pt) Slovak: prerobiť Spanish: adaptar (es) Turkish: uyarlamak (tr)

to make oneself comfortable to a new thing

Arabic: يتكيف مع Armenian: հարմարվել (hy) (harmarvel) Basque: egokitu, adaptatu Catalan: adaptar-se (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 適應 / 适应 (sik1 jing3) Mandarin: 適應 / 适应 (zh) (shìyìng) Czech: přizpůsobit se Esperanto: adaptiĝi, akomodiĝi Finnish: sopeutua (fi) French: s'adapter (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: assimilieren (de), akkommodieren (de) Alemannic German: aapasse Hungarian: alkalmazkodik (hu) Italian: adattarsi (it) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: аяыг дагах (ajayg dagax), дасах (mn) (dasax), зохицох (mn) (zoxicox) Polish: adaptować się impf or pf, zaadaptować się pf Portuguese: adaptar-se a Russian: приспоса́бливаться (ru) impf (prisposáblivatʹsja), приспосо́биться (ru) pf (prisposóbitʹsja), адапти́роваться (ru) (adaptírovatʹsja) Slovak: priviknúť Spanish: adaptarse (es), circunscribirse (es), ceñirse (es) Tagalog: umangkop Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: thích nghi (vi)

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Adjective

adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)

1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
   • c. 1709, Merlin's Prophecy, Jonathan Swift:

     This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.

Translations

adapted (adjective)

Albanian: adapt Bulgarian: подходящ (bg) (podhodjašt) Chinese: Mandarin: 適應 / 适应 (zh) (shìyìng) Esperanto: adaptita Finnish: sopiva (fi) French: adapté (fr) German: adaptiert (de) Italian: adattato (it) Japanese: 適合した (ja) (tekigō shita) Portuguese: adaptado (pt) Romanian: adaptat (ro) m Russian: адапти́рованный (ru) (adaptírovannyj) Spanish: adaptado (es) Swedish: anpassad (sv) Turkish: uygun (tr), adapte (tr)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adapt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• APDTA

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdap(t)/

Verb

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adaptin, simple past and past participle adaptit)

1. to adapt

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.