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Adaptable

adjective

Capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use. "The frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths"

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"Adaptable" Quotes from Famous Books

... said the colonel, who was adaptable, and who saw at once that Jarvis was a man of high character. "It's cool on the river and that coffee will warm one up ...

— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

... real life is neither very romantic nor fastidious. She is cheerful, adaptable, too fond of pleasure to be thoughtful, and has a decided inclination towards married life. Its material advantages and status attract her—and, for the rest, she has a vague confidence that everything will come ...

— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne

... get permission to visit M.'s cavalry division that I might observe the French peasantry. I went to give lectures to the men. I did that, faithfully exerting myself to the uttermost, but I did it very badly. I suppose I am not adaptable. Certainly the conditions under which I lectured destroyed any faint chance of my succeeding, before ...

— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham

... course of society. But after the turmoil of the fourth century had subsided, when governments began again to approach more nearly to peace and consequently to justice, and public life once more to be attractive to decent men, both philosophies showed themselves adaptable to the needs of prosperity as well as adversity. Many kings and great Roman governors professed Stoicism. It held before them the ideal of universal Brotherhood, and of duty to the 'Great Society of Gods and Men'; it enabled them to work, indifferent ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray

... has been transformed into one huge camp of wounded. All adaptable buildings—halls, cafes, school-rooms—have been rapidly commandeered for hospitals. Sometimes there are beds, more often rudely made straw mattresses, for little Servia, worn out by two hard wars, is ill-equipped to resist ...

— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various

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