adoptable
/ə'dɔptəbl/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Suitable or eligible for adoption: Describes a person, typically a child, who meets the legal and social criteria to be taken into a family as a permanent, legal son or daughter.
- Capable of being adopted or taken on: Can describe ideas, methods, or practices that are suitable to be chosen, accepted, and implemented.
Usage
- The primary use describes a child available for legal adoption.
- It can also describe abstract concepts (e.g., policies, styles) that are suitable for being taken up or accepted.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The agency works to find loving homes for adoptable children.
- This software framework is highly adoptable due to its clear documentation.
- There was a list of adoptable puppies at the animal shelter.
Advanced Usage
- "Readily adoptable": Emphasizes that something is easily or quickly suitable for adoption.
- The new safety standards are readily adoptable by all manufacturers.
- Used in formal contexts like social work, policy-making, and technology to discuss suitability for acceptance.
Variants and Related Words
- Adopt (verb): To take on or take up something; to legally take another's child as one's own.
- Adoption (noun): The act or process of adopting.
- Adopted (adjective): Having been taken on or taken in (e.g., an adopted child, an adopted method).
Synonyms
- Eligible: Qualified or entitled to be chosen.
- Suitable: Appropriate for a particular purpose or role.
- Acceptable: Able to be agreed on; satisfactory.
Antonyms
- Unadoptable: Not suitable or eligible for adoption.
- Ineligible: Not qualified or entitled to be chosen.
Related Phrases
- "Available for adoption": A common phrase with a very similar meaning to "adoptable," often used in official contexts.
- Several children are available for adoption through the state program.
- "Willing to adopt": Describes the perspective of the adoptive parent, not the child or concept.
Adjective
- suitable or eligible for adoption
- a shortage of adoptable babies