Adopted vs. Adapted

Adoptedverb

simple past tense and past participle of adopt

Adaptedverb

simple past tense and past participle of adapt

Adoptedadjective

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

Adaptedadjective

Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.

‘That movie was an adapted novel.’;

Adoptedadjective

acquired as your own by free choice;

‘my adopted state’; ‘an adoptive country’;

Adaptedadjective

changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose;

‘seeds precisely adapted to the area’; ‘instructions altered to suit the children's different ages’;

Adoptedadjective

having been taken into a specific relationship;

‘an adopted child’;