Definitions for adaptive

adaptive a·dap·tive

Spelling: [uh-dap-tiv]
IPA: /əˈdæp tɪv/

Adaptive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in adaptive (aadeiptv).

Definitions for adaptive

adjective

  1. serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation:

Origin of adaptive

First recorded in 1815-25; adapt + -ive

Examples for adaptive

One sign that depression is an adaptive behavioral response is its widespread presence in the animal kingdom.

What adaptive technology has been the most useful or important for you?

In other words every character in plant or animal must be adaptive.

Proud Host Family in Support of the Rockaway adaptive Water Sports Festival.

To see the adaptive benefits of depression, it helps to consider certain cruel but illuminating studies.

She loves to be outdoors,” Lori says, “She loves to swim and to ride her adaptive bike.

The facility of speech, the adaptive moulding to another's mood was not in him!

We must come to the conclusion that the form is adaptive in all cases.

There is no mind quite so nimble, adaptive, or capable of simulation as that of the Pole.

It has not been the business of monarchies to be adaptive from within.

Word Value for adaptive
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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