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adoptive

DEFINITIONS OF: adoptive

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adj of parents and children; related by adoption

“adoptive parents”
Synonyms
foster, surrogate
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
Antonyms:
biological
of parents and children; related by blood
begotten
(of offspring) generated by procreation
natural
related by blood; not adopted
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adj acquired as your own by free choice

“an adoptive country”
Synonyms:
adopted
Antonyms:
native
belonging to one by birth
connatural, inborn, inbred
normally existing at birth
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