adaptive
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adaptive (comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive)
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
- The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.
- 1896, C. Lloyd Morgan, On Modification and Variation:
- That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Synonyms [edit]
- (capable of being adapted): adaptable
- adaptative
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Translations [edit]
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable
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Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change
Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society
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References [edit]
- adaptive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French [edit]
Adjective [edit]
adaptive f
- feminine form of adaptif
