Definition of Nonadaptive

1. Adjective. (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose. "Dysfunctional behavior"

Exact synonyms: Dysfunctional
Similar to: Maladaptive

Definition of Nonadaptive

1. Adjective. Not adaptive; unable to adapt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonadaptive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonadaptive

nonactinide
nonactinides
nonaction
nonactions
nonactivated
nonactive
nonactivities
nonactivity
nonactor
nonactors
nonactuarial
nonad
nonadaptable
nonadapted
nonadapting
nonadaptive (current term)
nonaddict
nonaddicted
nonaddicting
nonaddictive
nonaddicts
nonadditive
nonadditivities
nonadditivity
nonaddressed
nonadecamer
nonadecameric
nonadecamers
nonadecane
nonadecanes

Literary usage of Nonadaptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adaptive Statistical Procedures and Related Topics: Proceedings of a by Herbert Robbins, John Van Ryzin (1986)
"However, nonadaptive procedures are much easier to study than adaptive procedures, and insights gained from the examination ..."

2. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"The nonadaptive matters of dialect find their origin in the exigencies of isolation, while languages in general are explainable by the combined facts of ..."

3. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"NOAD requests that the Gaussian quadrature be nonadaptive; that is, the quadrature points are centered at zero for each of the random effects and the ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"The answer should show how did the epileptics work out their phantasy, not in harmonious muscular activity, but in the discordant and nonadaptive epileptic ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The answer should show how did the epileptics work out their phantasy, not in harmonious muscular activity, but in the discordant and nonadaptive epileptic ..."

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