Definition

1. 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

1. suitable or eligible for adoption
   • a shortage of adoptable babies