overadaptとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

over- +‎ adapt

動詞

overadapt (三人称単数 現在形 overadapts, 現在分詞 overadapting, 過去形および過去分詞形 overadapted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To adapt excessively.
   • 1996, Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts (page 189)

     Apparently conscious of the need to achieve a good fit between Chaucer's text and extraneous materials, the scribe overadapted the poem to context by suppressing its generally springy first triplet, copying only those lines that refer to birdsong.

   • 2006, Gil and Dana Stieglitz, ‎Becoming a Godly Wife (page 64)

     In some cases, there is the problem of wives choosing to overadapt or being asked to overadapt. Adapting that takes away individuality, personhood or self-worth is overadapting. Adapting that requires lockstep thinking is overadapting.