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adaptive

adjective/əˈdæptɪv/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Designed or modified to help a person carry out a task despite a limitation.

An adaptive knife with an angled handle let her cut vegetables one-handed.

Similar: modified

Topic: Occupational therapy in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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