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Another word for adaptation

NOUN

  1. The act of making suitable to an end or the condition of being made suitable to an end

    See also:

    change

  2. Adjustment to a changing environment

    See also:

    change

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for adaptation

NOUN

  1. The state or process of being adapted

    See also:

    change

    adjustment

  2. Condition resulting from adaptation, sense 1

    See also:

    change

    agreement

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Progress is the result of adaptation, rather than reconstruction.

  • The short feet of the penguins are an adaptation.

  • The flowers show well-marked adaptation to their color and attract insects.

  • It is an adaptation of hide-the-thimble.

  • The adaptation of the Pulmonata to terrestrial life has entailed little modification of the internal organization.

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