Adoptive vs. Adopted

Adoptiveadjective

Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.

Adoptiveadjective

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

Adoptiveadjective

of parents and children; related by adoption;

Adoptiveadjective

acquired as your own by free choice;

Adoptedverb

simple past tense and past participle of adopt

Adoptedadjective

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

Adoptedadjective

acquired as your own by free choice;

Adoptedadjective

having been taken into a specific relationship;