All 8 Uses of
adapt
in
The Scarlet Letter
- His integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a principle.... I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)adapted = made suitable (changed to fit a different situation)
- The edifice—originally projected on a scale adapted to the old commercial enterprise of the port, and with an idea of subsequent prosperity destined never to be realized—contains far more space than its occupants know what to do with.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)adapted = made suitable
- So little adapted is the atmosphere of a Custom-house to the delicate harvest of fancy and sensibility, that, had I remained there through ten Presidencies yet to come, I doubt whether the tale of "The Scarlet Letter" would ever have been brought before the public eye.
Chpt Intr. (definition 2)adapted = suitable
- The unlikeliest materials—a stick, a bunch of rags, a flower—were the puppets of Pearl's witchcraft, and, without undergoing any outward change, became spiritually adapted to whatever drama occupied the stage of her inner world.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)adapted = well-suited
- So much strength of colouring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to Pearl's beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth.
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both minister and man of physic.
Chpt 9 (definition 2) *well adapted = well suited
- Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the more delicately adapted to it the man.
Chpt 20 (definition 2)adapted = well-suited
- It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill;
Chpt 22 (definition 1) *adapted = made suitable
Definitions:
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(1) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable
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(2) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for) to be especially well suited or appropriate for something