adapt

1. 1.

   make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

   “Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country”

   Synonymsaccommodate

   Broaderchange

   NarroweradjustgearfitangliciseshoehorntailordomesticateChristianizenaturalizeelectrify
2. 2.

   adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

   “We must adjust to the bad economic situation”

   Synonymsadjustconform

   Broaderget used to

   Narrowerreadjustreadaptassimilatefocusacclimatizematchobeysquare

Other forms of adapt

past tense

adapted·

present participle

adapting·

third person

adapts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adapt

What does adapt mean?

adapt means "make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adapt?

adapt has 2 syllables: a-dapt. The stress falls on "dapt". In IPA it is /əˈdæpt/.

What is another word for adapt?

Close synonyms include accommodate, adjust, conform. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adapt a common word?

adapt is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.