Word Meanings - ADOPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;

Additional info about word: ADOPT

1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADOPT)

• Affiliate
• Annex
• graft
• incorporate
• unite
• adopt
• inoculate
• Choose
• Select
• elect
• prefer
• appropriate
• cull
• pick out
• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• vouch
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• gain
• attract
• enlist
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• involve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADOPT)

• Redeem
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to ADOPT)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• GRAFTAGE
  The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• ELECTROTYPE
  A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.