adaptable
adjUS /əˈdæptəbəl/
Etymology From adapt + -able.
1
Capable of being adapted.
- an adaptable electric plug for international use
2
Willing or able to adapt to circumstances; flexible.
- She had had to turn out of her own room to accommodate him, but if one kept an apartment-house one had to be adaptable; […]1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
- Joan was adaptable, and easily fell in with the prevalent tone. She played her small jokes on each, and this readily dissolved restraint, and put all on terms of easy friendship.1901, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Frobishers:
- Synonyms
- adaptive
- Derived terms
- adaptability, adaptableness, adaptably, haloadaptable, inadaptable, maladaptable, nonadaptable, superadaptable, unadaptable
- Related terms
- adapt