adoptive
/əˈdɒptɪv
/adjective
1(Of a child or parent) in that relationship by adoption: he is the adoptive father of his wife’s three children...
- We spent most of the session talking about her relationship with her adoptive father, Eric.
- Obviously it is easier on the child and adoptive parents if the child is adopted at an early age.
- My adoptive mother gave me a copy of his obituary and three pictures of my father and told me the story.
1.1Denoting a place which a person has chosen as their permanent place of residence: his adoptive home town of Rochdale...
- His final resting place was his beloved adoptive country - Singapore.
- To the emigrant Irish and to their adoptive countries, the shamrock logo represented all that was best in Irishness.
- At the 2000 Games, she won the silver medal for her adoptive country in the first women's Olympic pole vault.
Derivatives
adoptively
- It resembles the immunosuppression caused by UVB at the cellular level in that it is adoptively transferable.
- This state of unresponsiveness could be adoptively transferred to partially immunosuppressed recipients.
- Elmets and Bowen noted their immunosuppression was adoptively transferable.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin adoptivus, from adoptare 'select for oneself' (see adopt).