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UK
/ɐdʒˈʌstɪd/
]
[ US /əˈdʒəstɪd/ ]
[ US /əˈdʒəstɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- adjusted to demands of daily living; showing emotional stability
- having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
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(especially of garments) having the fit or style adjusted
for my wedding I had my mother's wedding dress altered to fit me -
altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation
the car runs more smoothly with the timing adjusted
an adjusted insurance claim
How To Use adjusted In A Sentence
- He saluted and adjusted his large round wire rimmed glasses.
- Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.
- The valve can be adjusted from fully open to fully closed.
- She lives with my grandparents now and has adjusted to civilian life really well. The Sun
- According to the CDC, the "age-adjusted death rate decreased significantly for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death," including heart disease, malignant neoplasm cancer, various chronic diseases of the liver or respiratory system, influenza and pneumonia. The March of Health Progress
- The jalousie's louvers can be adjusted very quickly to control the interior environment and respond to changing weather conditions
- The bowling lane floor will be adjusted to ensure that it meets health and safety requirements. Times, Sunday Times
- I then waited half an hour until the bracelet was adjusted to my size.
- Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- They are not the happy, well adjusted children that we all imagine we can raise until we actually have the little hellions.
