Overadapt

Quick meaning: Overadapt is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To adapt excessively.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To adapt excessively.

Example Sentences

In some cases, there is the problem of wives choosing to overadapt or being asked to overadapt. Adapting that takes away individuality, personhood or self-worth is overadapting. Adapting that requires lockstep thinking is overadapting.

Apparently conscious of the need to achieve a good fit between Chaucer's text and extraneous materials, the scribe overadapted the poem to context by suppressing its generally springy first triplet, copying only those lines that refer to birdsong.

Word Forms

• overadapts
• overadapting
• overadapted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overadjust, overaccommodate, overabsorb, overallocate, overact, overrestrict.

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