Synonyms for adaptation
ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃənadap·ta·tion

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1. adaptation

   Synonyms:
   accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Adjustment
   • Organic Process
   • Physiology
   • Writing

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1. contrafactum

   Submitted by anonymous on October 26, 2020  

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1. adaptationnoun

   Synonyms:
   fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, aptness, adaptability, accommodation, harmony

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1. adaptationnoun

   Synonyms:
   adjustment, conformability

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1. List of paraphrases for "adaptation":

   adapting, adjustment, adapt, adaptive, coping, retrofit, adaptations, tailoring, adaption, customization, accommodation, adaptability, adapted, alignment, 'adaptation, habilitation, adjusting, adjust, transition, adjustments

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1. Craig Reynolds:

   There’s going to be some failures and setbacks here and there, i’m not hoping for the climate to change. I’m just realistic in that we need to do everything we can to slow climate change, but we also have to simultaneously have adaptation strategies to the climate change that is happening – and agave is just part of the adaptation strategy.

2. Francois Engelbrecht:

   Farming is already marginal. When it gets drastically warmer and drier, the means for adaptation will be extremely limited. The cattle industry will likely collapse.

3. Barbara Buchner:

   We need to incentivize people to come in at scale to invest in adaptation or resilience.

4. Robert Spicer:

   Here we have preserved in amber all the details of one such early flower just at the time when flowering plants begin to spread across the globe, and it shows superb adaptation to seasonally dry environments that supports vegetation exposed to frequent wildfires.

5. Sandeep Chamling Rai:

   For too long, reducing emissions and scaling up adaptation support has been hopelessly inadequate, this has resulted in worsening climate change impacts that exceed the ability of people and ecosystems to cope.