Adopts Synonyms and Antonyms

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ratifies
  2. embraces
  3. sanctions
  4. approves
  5. passes
  6. confirms
  7. affirms
  8. espouses
Take up and practice as one's own
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. espouses
  2. borrows
  3. takes
  4. affiliates
  5. assumes
  6. selects
  7. mimics
  8. supports
  9. chooses
  10. receives
  11. practices
  12. passes
  13. naturalizes
  14. imitates
  15. maintains
  16. utilizes
  17. fathers
  18. appropriates
  19. acquires
  20. uses
  21. enacts
  22. employs
  23. embraces
  24. accepts
  25. approves
  26. seizes
  27. advocates
Antonyms:
  1. rejects
  2. repudiates
  3. disowns
  4. repulses
  5. denies
Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assumes
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. espouses
  2. follows
Put into dramatic form
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dramatizes
To take as a son or daughter
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fathers
  2. rears
  3. fosters
  4. raises
Antonyms:
  1. disinherits

Adopts Sentence Examples

  • The title which He thus adopts must be considered later.

  • In his Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte, Herder adopts Leibnitz's idea of a graduated scale of beings, at the same time conceiving of the lower stages as the conditions, of the higher.

  • One genus of Thomisidae (Phognarachne), which inhabits the Oriental region, adopts the clever device of spinning on the surface of a leaf a sheet of web resembling the fluid portions of a splash of bird's dung, the more solid central portions being represented by the spider itself, which waits in the middle of the patch to seize the butterflies or other insects that habitually feed on birds' excrement and are attracted to the patch mistaking it for their natural food.

  • Shelley's tragedy is well known as a magnificent piece of writing, although the author adopts a purely fictitious version of the story.

  • In the Tableau Elementaire, published in 1795, Cuvier adopts Linnaeus's term in its earlier sense, but uses the French word "Reptiles," already brought into use by Brisson, as the equivalent of Amphibia.

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