Meanings
present singular third person unadapts · participle present unadapting · participle past unadapted · past unadapted
- ambitransitiveTo undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
Cultivating it on a regular basis improves our attitude towards writing and makes us more resilient. But in order to make it work we have to 'unadapt' to the habituation that familiarity can bring, […]
2017, Michael Alvear, The Bulletproof Author1 more example
It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]
2015, Joe McElhaney, A Companion to Fritz Lang, page 189
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
- Proto-Germanic*anda-
- Proto-West Germanic*anda-
- Old Englishand-
- Old Englishon-
- Middle Englishon-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ptós
- Proto-Italic*aptos
- Latinaptus
- Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
- Proto-Italic*apjō
- Latinapiō
- Latinaptō
- Latinadaptō
- Middle English*adapten
- Englishadapt
- Englishunadapt
Cite this entry
unadapt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadapt
“unadapt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadapt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unadapt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unadapt.
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