Spontaneous vs Adapt - What's the difference?
spontaneous | adapt |
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
produced without being planted or without human labor]]; [[endemic, indigenous
Random.
Sudden, without warning.
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
As adjectives the difference between spontaneous and adapt
is that spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause while adapt is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.As a verb adapt is
to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.spontaneous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- a spontaneous growth of wood
Synonyms
* (self-generated) autonomous * (sense, done by one's own free choice) autonomous * autonomousDerived terms
* spontaneousityadapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.