Definitions for adoptive

adoptive a·dop·tive

Spelling: [uh-dop-tiv]
IPA: /əˈdɒp tɪv/

Adoptive 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 291 anagrams from letters in adoptive (adeioptv).

Definitions for adoptive

adjective

  1. of or involving adoption.
  2. acquired or related by adoption:
  3. tending to adopt.

Origin of adoptive

1400-50; Latin adoptīvus; see adopt, -ive; replacing late Middle English adoptife Middle French adoptif

Examples for adoptive

Scott, born Laura “Luann” Bambrough, was raised in Utah by adoptive Mormon parents.

There is wide consensus among attorneys that adoptive parents can vacate an adoption if acts of fraud were committed.

Such is the institution, ingeniously severe, of aunts or adoptive mothers.

Pause, here, for a side-story: Costa is a Brazilian who elected to play for his adoptive Spain over the country of his birth.

Cofsky explained that Matthew Mancuso, the adoptive father, looked perfect on paper.

They sat in on monthly conference calls with the State Department for families caught midstream in the adoptive process.

Both girls used that delicate shading of their adoptive tie with him.

But more possible where there are seven adoptive sisters, than where there is only one.

He went in, and the next moment he was in the arms of his adoptive father.

Lieutenant Barclay did not forget to visit his adoptive father.

Word Value for adoptive
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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