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

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Herman Pontzer:

   Activity monitors are going to be wrong at predicting energy expenditure because they aren't incorporating this adaptation.

2. Mark Redwood:

   When you speak of adaptation in a business setting, people's eyes glaze over ... but if you speak about business continuity and protecting supply chains, that resonates very well.

3. Zeresenay Alemseged:

   Understanding if climbing was part of a species' adaptation and to what extent are crucial, that tells us a lot about its ecology and the type of selection forces that were acting on it. The new study supports many previous studies that the foot in A. afarensis was adapted for upright walking and was largely human-like. It also reveals that a few features, especially mobility, are a bit different.

4. Smita Nakhooda:

   The new range of partnerships through which the fund is able to work is going to help it take a new and inventive approach to adaptation.

5. Mr Stergiopoulos:

   We have demonstrated that two of the three most serious banana fungal diseases have become more virulent by increasing their ability to manipulate the banana’s metabolic path ways and make use of its nutrients, this parallel change in metabolism of the pathogen and the host plant has been overlooked until now and may represent a ‘ molecular fingerprint ’ of the adaptation process.

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