Adoptive

What do we mean by adoptive?

Characteristic of or having to do with adoption. adjective

Related by adoption. adjective

Being a place that one has moved to or resettled in. adjective

Fitted for or given to adopting: as, a receptive and adoptive language. Constituted by adoption; adopting or adopted: as, an adoptive father or son. Assumed: as, “adoptive and cheerful boldness,” Milton, Ref. in Eng., i.

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt adjective

Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption. adjective

Acquired as your own by free choice adjective

Of parents and children; related by adoption adjective

Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.

Words that are spelled similarly to adoptive:
adoptive, adaptive, adoptiv, additive, adoption, abortive, adopting, adoptee, adsorptive, optive, adoptism, adopte, adoptif, adoptio.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word adoptive:
shrink, eunuch, shi, wang, parents, adoption, biological, yang, jake, magical, wen, dowager, gao, mother, empress, father, parent, tang, yan, prefect, jin, voiced, grandmother, siblings, nephew, brother, prefecture, grandfather, liz, aunt, regent, consort, son, emperor, adopt, consul, grandson, min, foster, birth, caesar, superman, sister, dog, adopted, donna, grow, uncle, marcus, heir, child, daughter, custody, martha, shape, placement, powers, circuit, cousin, chen, throne, sons, baby, han, families, jonathan, childhood, prince, clark, family, transfer, successor, imperial, kent, guardian.

Words that rhyme with adoptive:
adopt of, dropped of, haupt of, lopped of, stopped of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe adoptive:
biological, prospective, natural, more, foster, pre, cellular, potential, only, gay, step, mere, most, white, intercountry, transracial, black, permanent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective adoptive:
parents, mother, father, families, family, parent, transfer, homes, immunotherapy, home, mothers, children, placement, son, child, placements, couple, status, fathers, relationship, couples, applicants, country, relatives, parenthood, therapy, brother, daughter, siblings, acts, immunity, experiments, relationships, sonship, kinship, sister, parenting, mom, sons, immunization, identity, brothers, grandfather, emperors, grandmother, sisters, chemoimmunotherapy, clients, heir, transfers, admission, masonry, motherhood, ties, filiation, applicant, grandparents, kin, recipients, nursing, homeland, admissions, pairs, household, leave.

Consonant match to adoptive:
adaptive, adept of, adopt of.

Words that sound like adoptive:
adoptive, adaptive, adopting, adapting, adoptee, adopted, adopt, adapted, adopter, adopts, adopte, adoptees, attemptive, additive, auditive, adapa, adeptly, adaptly, adapt, addictive, adept, adapter, adaptor, adapts, eruptive, adopters, adepts, adapte, adaptative, adaptively, irruptive, captive, add up to, sedative, attentive, editing, attempting, ative, aditi, redemptive, acceptive, adapters, assumptive, adop, adot, adaptors, susceptive, atopic, atopy, -ative, atapi.