adopted vs adoptive :

adopted or adoptive

Some people seem to think that “adoptive” is just a more fancy word than “adopted” and write about “the adoptive child.” But the two words have different meanings. Parents who do the adopting are adoptive, children are adopted. Don’t call people adopting children “adaptive,” though. Adaptive parents would be parents that could adapt themselves to changing circumstances.When a city, club, or other organization adopts you, it also is adoptive. ="144" height="216" align=center>

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Definitions

  • v  choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
  • v  take up and practice as one's own
  • v  take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  • v  take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
    he adopted an air of superiority
  • v  take into one's family
    They adopted two children from Nicaragua
  • v  put into dramatic form
  • v  take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
    They adopted the Jewish faith
  • a  acquired as your own by free choice
    my adopted state

  • a  of parents and children; related by adoption
    adoptive parents
  • a  acquired as your own by free choice
    an adoptive country
News & Articles


  • Kam's Kapsules: For Movies Opening June 14, 2013
    Man of Steel (PG-13 for profanity, sci-fi violence and intense action sequences) Henry Cavill stars as Clark Kent in this reboot of the Superman series about an alien raised from infancy by adoptive parents (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane) in Kansas where, as a young man, he’s called upon to save Earth from extraterrestrial invaders from his home planet, Krypton.
    June 13, 2013 - Skanner
  • Kam's Kapsules: For Movies Opening June 14, 2013
    Man of Steel (PG-13 for profanity, sci-fi violence and intense action sequences) Henry Cavill stars as Clark Kent in this reboot of the Superman series about an alien raised from infancy by adoptive parents (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane) in Kansas where, as a young man, he’s called upon to save Earth from extraterrestrial invaders from his home planet, Krypton.
    June 13, 2013 - Skanner
  • Support Groups
    ADOPTIVE FAMILIES TOGETHER: A group for pre- and post-adoptive families; meets fourth Sun. each month, 7-9 p.
    June 12, 2013 - Lowell Sun