Synonyms for adjustment
əˈdʒʌst məntad·just·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. adjustment, accommodation, fittingnoun

   making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

   Synonyms:
   adaption, modification, appointment, readjustment, try-on, alteration, fitting, allowance, trying on, accommodation, registration, adaptation

2. alteration, modification, adjustmentnoun

   the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

   Synonyms:
   modification, limiting, change, readjustment, qualifying, adaption, alteration, accommodation, revision, fitting, allowance, registration, adaptation

3. adjustment, registration, readjustmentnoun

   the act of adjusting something to match a standard

   Synonyms:
   adaption, modification, readjustment, enrollment, alteration, enrolment, fitting, allowance, accommodation, registration, adaptation

4. adaptation, adaption, adjustmentnoun

   the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

   Synonyms:
   adaption, accommodation, readjustment, modification, alteration, fitting, allowance, version, registration, adaptation

5. allowance, adjustmentnoun

   an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances

   "an allowance for profit"

   Synonyms:
   modification, accommodation, readjustment, leeway, allowance account, allowance, adaptation, alteration, adaption, valuation account, fitting, margin, registration, tolerance, valuation reserve

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Improvement
   • Organic Process

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights

2. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   regulation, setting, putting right

3. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   settlement, reconciliation, pacification

4. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adjustmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   adaptation, regulation, settlement

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "adjustment":

   adjusting, adaptation, adjustments, adjust, adjusted, readjustment, tuning, adapting, readjust, setting, readjusting, readjustments, fit, recosting, correction, readjusted, fitting, realignment, wrapping, reorganization, coping, fine-tuning, alignment, wrap, adjusts, retrofit, adaptive, set, adjustability, restructuring, adjuster, true-up, regularization, redevelopment, rectification

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1. Jack Guy Lafontant:

   The Government strongly condemns the acts of violence and vandalism perpetrated following the announcement of the adjustment of the prices of petroleum products.

2. De Blasio:

   We had a troubling situation in Midtown Manhattan and in the Bronx, but we had no unrest, no looting in Brooklyn and in Queens and Staten Island and most of the Bronx and most of Manhattan and I really want to set that straight, we thought we had a measured plan and suddenly this very coordinated criminal activity in Midtown Manhattan made the adjustment to go to the earlier curfew.

3. Aldous Huxley:

   The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

4. Adam Valdez:

   We were very subtle with it ... Every tiny adjustment to say just how much eyes open or close, how much eye whites you see on the inside or outside of the irises, they all have an emotional meaning for us as humans, but if ... you push it, you snap the connection of the photo realism of the image that you're seeing with behavior that is of a different sort ... It was a very tricky thing.

5. Alan Hedge:

   Whatever it is, has to be easy to use and quick, if you can't make an adjustment easily you are not going to use it.