Able to adjust to new conditions or situations, or to changes in one's environment.

= adaptive, adj.

Having a capacity for or tendency towards adaptation; spec. able to adjust to new situations or surroundings; = adaptable, adj. 2.

Originally Psychoanalysis. Relating to or involving alteration of the external environment to meet the needs of the individual.

figurative. Made to suit particular needs; adjusted. Originally U.S.