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adapt
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The Grass is Singing
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- They were usually ex-public school, very English, but extremely adaptable.†
p. 11.6adaptable = 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.
- From Charlie's point of view, the adaptability redeemed them.†
p. 11.6 *adaptability = the degree to which something can change to fit a different situation
- He would have to adapt himself, and if he did not conform, would be rejected: the issue was clear to him, he had heard the phrase "getting used to our ideas" too often to have any illusions on the point.†
p. 22.1adapt = change to fit a different situation; or make suitable
- But his early carefree adaptability was gone.†
p. 25.6adaptability = the degree to which something can change to fit a different situation
- The years went past; her friends got married; she had been bridesmaid a dozen times; other people's children were growing up; but she went on as companionable, as adaptable, as aloof and as heart-whole as ever, working as hard enjoying herself as she ever did in office, and never for one moment alone, except when she was asleep.†
p. 35.8adaptable = 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.
- That was the kind of thing she was good at: adapting herself sensibly and quietly to any occasion.†
p. 36.5adapting = changing to fit a different situation
- By now he had persuaded himself into believing she was a practical, adaptable, serene person, who would need only a few weeks on the farm to become what he wanted her to be.†
p. 49.9adaptable = 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.
- But then, there was such a gulf between what she now was, and that shy, aloof, yet adaptable girl with the crowds of acquaintances.†
p. 107.7
- With the habit of long years, he easily adapted himself to the thought of "next year," and began planning accordingly.†
p. 149.4
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)