adapt
verb (used with object)
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
unadapted
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a word derived from
adapt.
Example Sentences
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Black Adam If I’ve got this right, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dips his toe into the dwindling stocks of unadapted superhero characters to play one of DC’s least-known baddies, the primary antagonist of Shazam!
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2017
Into the Woods director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt will steer the project, which draws on as-yet unadapted stories from P.L.
From Time ● Sep. 14, 2015
Hazel was reluctant to see the specially adapted house unadapted again, although the special adaptation had seemed principally to consist of putting a bed in the living room.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2011
I got him out by siezin' the chair and holdin' it tight, till he dismounted from it — which he did with words unadapted to the serenity of the atmosphere.
From Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley
When, however, the parasites gain an entry into the blood of man or other unadapted animals,3 they produce, as is well known, harmful and often very serious effects.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
