Definitions

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  • adjective Not adapted

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  • adjective not having adapted to new conditions
  • adjective not changed in form or character for a purpose

Etymologies

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un- +‎ adapted

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Examples

  • The Darwinian idea of adaptation by automatic elimination of the unadapted is a simple and clear idea.

    Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

  • There are in reality infinitely more things "unadapted" to each other in this world than there are things "adapted"; infinitely more things with irregular relations than with regular relations between them.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • There are in reality infinitely more things "unadapted" to each other in this world than there are things "adapted"; infinitely more things with irregular relations than with regular relations between them.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

  • Hazel was reluctant to see the specially adapted house unadapted again, although the special adaptation had seemed principally to consist of putting a bed in the living room.

    Daniel Maier's World of lather 2011

  • Making a film based on a previously unadapted book is totally different than doing a remake.

    “Clash of the Titans” 1981 vs. 2010, or CGI vs. Stop-Motion » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • Natural selection, by contrast, exists against a backdrop of other factors, notably the historical constraints imposed by deriving genetic material from unadapted or poorly adapted to a certain “lifestyle” ancestors.

    The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Additionally, traditional, unadapted carols are also sung.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: “Christmas Has Nuclear Weapons” 2005

  • I read as a child a mix of books in British English and unadapted US English vast amounts of American science fiction as well as older classics, and the Scottish side of my family used to send me The Broons and Oor Wullie Christmas annuals whose strips were heavily peppered with Scottish dialect words.

    languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD. 2004

  • Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero; but she had no worldly wisdom; her powers were unadapted to the practical business of life: she would fail to defend her most manifest rights, to consult her most legitimate advantage.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • It has been shown that it is not in their nature to move themselves, and, since nature is no wanton or random creator, clearly she will have given things which possess no movement a shape particularly unadapted to movement.

    On the Heavens 2002

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