adjust
Verb
Verb Forms: adjusted, adjusting, adjusts
- To alter or move something slightly for a better fit.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- "Adjust the clock, please"
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- make correspondent or conformable
- "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- To modify.
- To improve or rectify.
- To settle an insurance claim.
- To change to fit circumstances.
Examples
- He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
- Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
- She had to adjust her whole strategy after I blocked the triple word score.
- She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent to ad- + just. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus; if so, it is a doublet of adjute.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
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