adaptable

From adapt + -able.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdæptəbəl/

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adaptable (comparative more adaptable, superlative most adaptable)

1. Capable of being adapted.

   Antonym: unadaptable

   an adaptable electric plug for international use

2. Willing or able to adapt to circumstances; flexible.

   Antonyms: unadaptable, inadaptable

   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     She had had to turn out of her own room to accommodate him, but if one kept an apartment-house one had to be adaptable; […]

   • 1901, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Frobishers:

     Joan was adaptable, and easily fell in with the prevalent tone. She played her small jokes on each, and this readily dissolved restraint, and put all on terms of easy friendship.

• adaptive

• adapt

• “adaptable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From adaptar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ðəpˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðapˈta.ble]

adaptable m or f (masculine and feminine plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

• adaptabilitat

• “adaptable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From adapter +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /a.dap.tabl/

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adaptable (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

• adaptabilité

• “adaptable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• adaptábel

From adaptar +‎ -able.

adaptable m or f (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonyms: inadaptable, inadaptábel

• adabtabilidade

• “adaptable”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

adapt +‎ -able

adaptable (comparative mair adaptable, superlative maist adaptable)

1. adaptable

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

From adaptar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /adabˈtable/ [a.ð̞aβ̞ˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧dap‧ta‧ble

adaptable m or f (masculine and feminine plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

• → Tagalog: adaptable

• “adaptable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish adaptable.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔadapˈtable/ [ʔɐ.d̪ɐpˈt̪aː.blɛ]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧dap‧ta‧ble

adaptable (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜉ᜔ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎᜒ)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or of being adapted)

   Synonyms: naiaangkop, naibabagay, naiaakma, naiaayon, naiaayos

• “adaptable”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 10