Adoptive Definition

ə-dŏptĭv
adjective
Characteristic of or having to do with adoption.
American Heritage
Having to do with adoption.
Webster's New World
Related by adoption.
American Heritage
Having become so by the act of adoption.
Adoptive parents.
Webster's New World
Being a place that one has moved to or resettled in.
Our adoptive city.
American Heritage
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Adoptive Sentence Examples

  • Like her adoptive mother, Destiny was mesmerized by the chocolate gaze and rich deep voice.

  • That was a double-edged hurt, though, because Alex adored his adoptive father.

  • Frowning, she went to the kitchen, worried Evelyn's cat found its way home from its adoptive parents up the street.

  • The adopted child may have trouble fitting into the adoptive family when genetic traits are not mirrored or reflected.

  • They held that the duality of natures implied a distinction between two modes of sonship in Christ - the natural or proper, and the adoptive.

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