overadapt
overadapt verb: to adapt excessively.
Verb
overadapt (third-person singular simple present overadapts, present participle overadapting, simple past and past participle overadapted)
- To adapt excessively.
- 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.1996, Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts, page 189
- 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.2006, Gil and Dana Stieglitz, Becoming a Godly Wife, page 64
Forms of overadapt
| third-person singular present | overadapts |
|---|---|
| present participle | overadapting |
| past participle | overadapted |
| past | overadapted |
Origin of overadapt
From over- + adapt.
Questions about overadapt
- What does overadapt mean?
- Overadapt means to adapt excessively.
- What part of speech is overadapt?
- Overadapt is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overadapt?
- The past tense of overadapt is overadapted.
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