Antonyms for adaptive
əˈdæp tɪvadap·tive

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1. adaptiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   adaptative

2. adaptiveadjective

   Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

   Synonyms:
   adaptative, adaptable

3. adaptiveadjective

   Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.

   Synonyms:
   adaptative, adaptable

4. adaptiveadjective

   Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

   Synonyms:
   adaptable, adaptative

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:1.0 / 1 vote

1. adaptive, adaptativeadjective

   having a capacity for adaptation

   "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon"

   Antonyms:
   maladjustive, nonadaptive, maladaptive, dysfunctional

   Synonyms:
   adaptative

How to use adaptive in a sentence?

1. Mark Ruggiero:

   Sequoia trees are a fire-adaptive tree, it’s important to have fire to have sequoias thrive, but when we get such intense fires even the sequoias can’t stand up to them.

2. Katie McLaughlin:

   These processes are likely adaptive in some way. In the long term they confer costs for our health, mentally, that can be anxiety and depression later on. Physically it can be diabetes and heart disease.

3. Ian Gilby:

   Nevertheless, recognizing the adaptive value of male-female aggression in chimpanzees may inevitably help us to understand, and hopefully prevent, similar behavior among humans.

4. Zhang Hanwen:

   The aim of the game in this boom period of proboscidean evolution was' adapt or die,' habitat perturbations were relentless, pertained to the ever-changing global climate, continuously promoting new adaptive solutions while proboscideans that didn't keep up were literally, left for dead. The once greatly diverse and widespread mastodonts were eventually reduced to less than a handful of species in the Americas, including the familiar Ice Age American mastodon.

5. Justin Laferrier:

   A number of patients have told me even after going through rehabilitation and even after being able to accomplish activities of daily living . . . they never truly felt like themselves until they participated in adaptive sports.

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