adoptive

/əˈdɒptɪv/ (bre, ipa) · /əˈdɑːptɪv/ (ame, ipa) · /ə-ˈdäp-tiv/ (ame, mw)

adoptive — 形容詞

1. describing a parent, child, family, or home connected to someone through legal a

1.形容詞C1
釋義

收養的

因合法收養而建立關係的，或自己選擇定居的

describing a parent, child, family, or home connected to someone through legal adoption rather than by birth; sometimes also describing a country or city that a person has chosen to make their home.

例句

Dilnoza only met her adoptive parents when she was six months old.

Dilnoza 直到六個月大才見到她的養父母。

adoptive + parents (people who legally adopted a child)

The Lin family welcomed three adoptive siblings from different parts of Vietnam.

林家收養了三個來自越南不同地方的兄弟姊妹。

adoptive siblings (related through adoption, not birth)

同義詞
  • foster

    'foster' parents care for a child temporarily without legal adoption; 'adoptive' parents have full legal rights.

  • chosen

    informal alternative when describing a country or home one has settled in by choice.

反義詞
  • biological

    describes the parent or child connected by birth rather than adoption.

  • birth

    as in 'birth mother' or 'birth country' — the original, not the chosen one.

文法句型

adoptive + family-relation noun

adoptive + country/home

用法筆記

Almost always used before a noun (attributive), not after a verb like 'be'. Distinguish from 'adopted': 'adoptive' usually describes the parent or family doing the adopting, while 'adopted' describes the child who was taken into the family. Extended use with words like 'country', 'city', or 'home' means a place someone has chosen to live in, even though they were born somewhere else.

常見錯誤

❌My parents are adoptive.
✅My parents are my adoptive parents.
💡'adoptive' goes in front of a noun, not after 'be'.
❌He is my adoptive son.
✅He is my adopted son.
💡use 'adopted' for the child; 'adoptive' is for the parent or family.