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UNADAPTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unadaptable mean?
• UNADAPTABLE (adjective)
The adjective UNADAPTABLE has 1 sense:
1. not adaptable
Familiarity information: UNADAPTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not adaptable
Similar:
inflexible; rigid; unbending (incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances)
Antonym:
adaptable (capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use)
Derivation:
unadaptability (the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances)
Context examples
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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