Both Uses of
adapt
in
Childhood's End
- That will give his eyes time to adapt-I suppose he has reflexes like ours, and we don't want to blind him.†
Chpt 4 *adapt = change to fit a different situation; or make suitable
- Perhaps not, thought Jan: eighty years was a long time, and though he was young and adaptable, he might find it hard to understand all the changes that had come to pass.†
Chpt 22adaptable = able to change to fit a different situationstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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