adaptable adj : capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths" [ant: unadaptable]

English

Pronunciation

• US: /əˈdæptəbəl/

Adjective

1. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.

Related terms

• adapt
• adaptability
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptation
• adaptational
• adaptative
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness
• adaptedness
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptional
• adaptitude
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptiveness
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptorial

Translations

• Finnish: sopeutuva, mukautuva

References

French

Adjective

1. adaptable

able to adapt, accessible, accommodative, acquiescent, adaptive, adjustable, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, bendable, bending, bouncy, buoyant, changeable, checkered, complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, ductile, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, generally capable, giving, handy, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, obedient, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, other-directed, permutable, plastic, pliable, pliant, practical, protean, proteiform, ready, receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, submissive, supple, susceptible, to hand, tractable, tractile, transient, transitory, two-handed, untroublesome, variable, versatile, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, yielding