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adaptive
[ uh-dap-tiv ]
adjective
- serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation:
the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
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Other Words From
- a·daptive·ly adverb
- a·daptive·ness noun
- ad·ap·tiv·i·ty [ad-ap-, tiv, -i-tee], noun
- nona·daptive adjective
- rea·daptive adjective
- rea·daptive·ly adverb
- rea·daptive·ness noun
- una·daptive adjective
- una·daptive·ly adverb
- una·daptive·ness noun
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Example Sentences
To see the adaptive benefits of depression, it helps to consider certain cruel but illuminating studies.
One sign that depression is an adaptive behavioral response is its widespread presence in the animal kingdom.
She loves to be outdoors,” Lori says, “She loves to swim and to ride her adaptive bike.
What adaptive technology has been the most useful or important for you?
What area/tasks would you most like to see more adaptive technology developed for?
Though the squirrels have taken to the trees, there has been no adaptive change in the structure of their limbs and feet.
Those closely related to human infancy, adapting and adjusting the child to the world in which he lives, may be called adaptive.
Their foreheads are meaner, and their eyes hard, but the whole face rather more adaptive and in touch with life.
The adaptive or "special organising force" or ἰδέα, on the other hand, produces the diversity of organic 112beings.
Somehow, the plague incubation period had been shortened to fit their life span; the disease was nothing if not adaptive.
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