Antonyms for adaptation
ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃənadap·ta·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 14 votes

1. adaptation

   Antonyms:
   inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement

   Synonyms:
   accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence

Matched Categories

1. • Adjustment
   • Organic Process
   • Physiology
   • Writing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. adaptation, versionnoun

   a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

   "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"

   Synonyms:
   adaption, reading, translation, adjustment, interpretation, rendering, variant, variation, interlingual rendition, version, edition

2. adaptation, adaption, adjustmentnoun

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

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

3. adaptationnoun

   (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

   Synonyms:
   adjustment, version, adaption

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1. adaptationnoun

   Synonyms:
   adjustment, conformability

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1. original

   adaptation is a modified version. so the opposition is the original versus the altered copy.

   the original of my fair lady is pygmalion which is an adaptation.

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

How to use adaptation in a sentence?

1. Richard Klein:

   Adaptation is a global challenge because we’re all connected, what happens in one part of the world has an effect on others in very different parts.

2. Leonardo DiCaprio:

   Two years ago, we found ourselves submerged deep in nature with all of its complications and all the beauty that it gave us cinematically, this film was about survival. It was about adaptation. It was about the triumph of the human spirit.

3. Thomas Huxley:

   It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

4. Jerome Cohen:

   Unfairly receiving accusations with no chance of defending themselves -- this is not new, but it's an adaptation to new technology that now makes it possible for everybody to see this.

5. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   A paradigm shift can be a sign of progress and evolution, a testament to our capacity for innovation and adaptation.

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