What does adoptive mean?

adoptive means "of parents and children; related by adoption". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adoptive?

adoptive has 3 syllables: a-dop-tive. The stress falls on "dop". In IPA it is /əˈdɑptɪv/.

What is another word for adoptive?

Close synonyms include adopted. 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.

What is the opposite of adoptive?

The recorded antonyms are biological.

Is adoptive a common word?

adoptive 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.

Adoptive — meaning and how to say it: uh-DAHP-tiv

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
of parents and children; related by adoption
“adoptive parents”
Antonymsbiological
Similarfoster
2.
acquired as your own by free choice
“my adopted state”
“an adoptive country”
Synonymsadopted

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What does adoptive mean?: adoptive means "of parents and children; related by adoption". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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