Verb (used with object) : They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to adapt easily to all circumstances.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Darwinian idea of adaptation by automatic elimination of the unadapted is a simple and clear idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

Additionally, traditional, unadapted carols are also sung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » VIDEO: “Christmas Has Nuclear Weapons”] Reference

A foreign plant may not necessarily be unadapted to another locality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

I am kind of bummed that I haven't seen the unadapted Puccini version.    From Wordnik.com.  [meli Diary Entry] Reference

The original, unadapted story runs thus as given in the notes by Mr. Rouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Making a film based on a previously unadapted book is totally different than doing a remake.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Clash of the Titans” 1981 vs. 2010, or CGI vs. Stop-Motion » Scene-Stealers] Reference

These proved unadapted to the climate as the trees seemed to run all to growth and bore very few nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

The American is often considered to be by nature unadapted for jollity, if not positively averse to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

It is, that if there ever were any unadapted organisms, they have disappeared, leaving the world to their more efficient kin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference

This means that growing a high-yielding new variety unadapted to drought is more risky for gardeners in areas subject to drought.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

He was the most unselfish of human creatures: unadapted to this world, he cared not for himself, and put himself to inconvenience for the sake of his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

That might be why there were so few of these unadapted creatures active in the humans 'world these days, and Cold Iron had nothing to do with them fleeing to dwell Underhill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chrome Circle]

She was high strung as a racing horse, and as unadapted to the plow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz] Reference

The Greek classification of the virtues is, however, entirely unadapted to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference

That they were physically unadapted to the profession was obvious enough in many cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bambi] Reference

Institutions once sufficient and salutary become unadapted to a change of circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference

"He would use language unadapted to prayer-meetings and public platforms," said Miss Penny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearl of Pearl Island] Reference

It was an absurd arrangement in peace-time, and one that was wholly unadapted to the conditions of a great war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918] Reference

Should the international community help the truly miserable, unadapted group first, as utilitarianism recom - mends?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Theory Blog] Reference

Under stress this person often flips to the opposite, and the suppressed quality comes out in a clumsy, unadapted way.    From Wordnik.com.  [GayPatriot] Reference

Sigh ... it's so tiring to hear people on the SMTP protocol is outdated and totally unadapted to the modern uses to which we put it.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

The film features five previously unadapted stories from the original books, rather than using the Disney Channel series as the template.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

All the civilised societies inevitably drag behind them a residue of degenerates, of the unadapted, of persons affected by various taints.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Revolution] Reference

Manasseth and his wife had become brutes, and like other brutes, their minds and hearts were unadapted to the mercies and business of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life.] Reference

It would be sure to win and live, for it would be coherent and adapted, whereas, in comparison, competing tribes would be incoherent and unadapted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference

The thermometer is the more indispensable to the physician the more his sense of touch is unadapted and untrained in the gathering of the thermic stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

It cannot climb the trees; unadapted for swimming, it dare not seek safety in the water; and incapable of moving rapidly, it is unable to run from its foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The force of this idea was much weakened, however, by the necessity which it involved of considering the disturbances abnormal and unadapted to any purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

We normally do not notice them because we move our eyes about three times a second, so the image of a stimulus constantly falls on new, fresh, unadapted rods and cones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers / Feed] Reference

It became obvious that, healthy and admirable as are tents for hospital purposes in summer, they are, if not impossible, at least unadapted for winter conditions in northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference

If fitness only meant “what survives” to us, we wouldn’t even be able to detect the constraints imposed by derivation from unadapted and poorly adapted organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

That might be why there were so few of these unadapted creatures active in the humans" world these days, and Cold Iron had nothing to do with them fleeing to dwell Underhill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chrome Borne]