Definition of 'adoptive'

Word Frequency

adoptive (ədɒptɪv )

1. adjective

Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.

He was brought up by adoptive parents in London.

...her adoptive mother.

2. adjective

Someone's adoptive country or city is the one that they choose for their home, although they were not born there.

They threatened to expel him from his adoptive country.

Galway in Ireland is my adoptive home.

Word Frequency

adoptive (əˈdɒptɪv )

adjective

acquired or related by adoption

an adoptive father

of or relating to adoption

Compare adopted

Word Frequency

adoptive in American English (əˈdɑptɪv ; ədäpˈtiv)

adjective

having to do with adoption

having become so by the act of adoption

adoptive parents

Derived forms

adoptively (aˈdoptively)

adverb

Word origin of 'adoptive'

L adoptivus

Example sentences containing 'adoptive'

Social workers really look only for adoptive parents for children on their own books.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Relations with his adoptive father were fraught.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Would my birth mother have been as good a mother as my adoptive one?

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

His heartless adoptive mother ended up estranged from her family.

The Times Literary Supplement (2011)

Her adoptive mother had a circle of friends who worked in charities or at the university.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

He now regards them as his unofficial adoptive brother and mother.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Her current problem is that her adoptive father owned the dodgy club in which the dead woman worked.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

She tells me her father concluded she had a problem with intimacy because of the behaviour of her adoptive family.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

She said it was hard to imagine that there was another prospective adoptive family where the boys would be happier.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The lengthy process that follows means that most children are more than a year old before going home to their adoptive family.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Councils and adoption agencies are to be publicly shamed if they do not act quickly to find adoptive families for children in care.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Here, three single men recount how they became adoptive fathers.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Coming to terms with a new life in an adoptive family can give rise to new challenges for the child and adoptive families.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Her adoptive father was an academic who had taught in Jamaica.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Black and Asian children wait on average three times longer than white children for an adoptive family.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

He acquired his love of horses and dogs from his adoptive mother, who adored animals.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Their adoptive father claims the younger boy was so traumatised that he saw vampires, ghosts and demons.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

If it is decided that the child can return home, the adoptive parents must help in that process.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

The children love their adoptive parents, but the personal cost has been huge and the rewards look slight.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Social workers have long sought a racial match between children and adoptive parents, which has meant fewer ethnic minority children are adopted.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The Government is concerned not enough weight is given to the stable home life an adoptive family offers a child who has suffered neglect.

The Sun (2016)

A lot of children seem to be left waiting for adoptive homes because social workers are reluctant to place ethnic children with white couples.

The Sun (2011)

Dad's a builder and Mum finds adoptive families for children.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Despite having a very happy childhood with a loving adoptive family, the still unanswered questions about her biological family nagged at the back of her mind.

The Sun (2014)

JUST one in 35 babies removed from abusive homes find adoptive parents, figures show.

The Sun (2011)

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Translations for 'adoptive'

British English: adoptive ADJECTIVE
Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.He was brought up by adoptive parents.

Brazilian Portuguese: adotivo adotiva
Chinese: 收养的 >家庭
European Spanish: adoptivo adoptiva
French: adoptif adoptive
German: Adoptiv-
Italian: adottivo adottiva
Japanese: 里親の
Korean: 양자 관계의
Portuguese: adotivo adotiva
Spanish: adoptivo adoptiva

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Definition of adoptive from the Collins English Dictionary

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Comment by ALRifai on 23 Jun 2017

adoptive adj. 1. of parents and children; related by adoption; acquired as your own by free choice. 2. As a result of the adoption of another's child. " Both died, leaving their brother to become an adoptive parent to their children". "The story was built around an emotional tug-of-war between the natural mother of a Mexican boy and his adoptive parents in San Francisco". (foster, surrogate, adopted). بالتّبنّي؛ خاص او متعلق بالتبني

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