Dictionary Entry
adoptive
adoptive is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
- 2adjective
acquired as your own by free choice
"my adopted state"
"an adoptive country"
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- 3adjective
of parents and children; related by adoption
"adoptive parents"
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