Adopted and Different

Adopted

Adopted adjective - Acquired as your own by free choice.

Different and adopted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Different" instead an adjective "Adopted".

Different

Different adjective - Being not of the same kind.

Adopted and different are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adopted" instead an adjective "Different".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Unable to subsume their personalities beneath his own, he instead adopted them — becoming a gestalt entity, able to think with many different minds and speak with many different voices.
  • Tabletop Game / Traveller MegaTraveller's "World Builder's Handbook" introduced the idea that a world may have different TLs for different areas of science and engineering, and a similar system was adopted by GURPS Traveller's "First In" sourcebook.
  • The Danza Tia and Tamera Mowry as Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell in Sister Sister (In the series, they're twins separated at birth and adopted by different people, hence different surnames)
    Source: The Danza
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