Nonadaptive refers to a lack of ability to adapt or change in response to new or changing circumstances. Its antonyms include adaptable, adjustable, flexible, and versatile. These words all suggest a capacity to change or adapt to different situations, environments, or contexts. Adaptable implies the ability to adjust easily to new situations, while adjustable suggests the ability to modify or alter something to fit a specific purpose or need. Flexible implies the ability to bend or adjust without breaking, while versatile suggests the ability to perform multiple functions or roles. By contrast, nonadaptive suggests a rigidity or inflexibility that prevents one from adapting to new circumstances, making adaptability a desirable trait in most contexts.

What are the antonyms for Nonadaptive?

• adj.

  • noun
  • adaptative
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  • adaptive
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Usage examples for Nonadaptive

Famous quotes with Nonadaptive

• We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility. Organisms inherit a body form and a style of embryonic development; these impose constraints upon future change and adaptation. In many cases, evolutionary pathways reflect inherited patterns more than current environmental demands. These inheritances constrain, but they also provide opportunity. A potentially minor genetic change […] entails a host of complex, nonadaptive consequences. […] What “play” would evolution have if each structure were built for a restricted purpose and could be used for nothing else? How could humans learn to write if our brain had not evolved for hunting, social cohesion, or whatever, and could not transcend the adaptive boundaries of its original purpose?

  Stephen Jay Gould
• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

  Timothy Leary

Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.