Definition of ADAPT

adapt

Verb

Verb Forms: adapted, adapting, adapts

  • To make something suitable for a new use or purpose.
  • make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
    • "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
  • adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
  • To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

Adj

  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

Examples

  • a word of an adapted form
  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
  • to adapt a story for the stage
  • to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
  • to bring out a play adapted from the French
  • You must adapt your strategy based on the tiles you draw.

Origin / 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.

Scrabble Score: 8

adapt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
adapt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
adapt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

adapt: valid Words With Friends Word