adaptable
He was praised for his adaptability to different situations.
The coach is happy with the resourcefulness and adaptability of his players.
The persistence and adaptability of these pests make them nearly indestructible.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Adapting and modifying
acclimate
acclimation
acclimatization
acclimatize
acclimatize to something
ambidextrous
chameleon
change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom
configure
counter-adaptation
doctor something with something
pliantly
preadaptation
preadaptive
put something back
put something/someone forward
unadapted
unamended
write someone out of something
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Adapting and attuning to something

adaptability | American Dictionary

adaptability
noun[ U ]
us/əˌdæp·təˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
ability or willingness to change:
This car is the perfect mix of comfort, adaptability, and speed.

Examples of adaptability

adaptability
Several additional tools and features are needed in the director's toolkit, with some degree of adaptability to support the different roles we described earlier.
This has enabled hunters to take advantage of year to year variability and has been important in facilitating adaptability to late twentieth century climate change.
Adaptability of the photosynthetic apparatus to light intensity in ecotypes from exposed and shaded habitats.
That adaptability means that rather than being adapted to a particular environment, humans adapted to a broad range of potential environments.
The concept of legal adaptability may be criticised, because law does not merely react: rather it could be stressed that law 'matters' for development.
A hand replacement needs to encompass as much of the adaptability inherent in the natural system as possible.
The regulating spring provides the necessary sealing pressure and helps to improve the surface adaptability of the robot.
One possible exception is the evolution of adaptability.
The third is encouraging adaptability by balancing enterprise flexibility with employee involvement.
Adaptability of calliandra tree fallows planted in alleys.
This kind of data awareness improves the modularity and mobility of system components and hence system scalability and adaptability.
Centralized computation is said to suffer from poor scalability, high maintenance costs and low adaptability.
Agents in a multi-agent system are characterised by autonomy, adaptability, interoperability and dynamism.
The value of conducting varietal adaptability trials under properly implemented and varying levels of far mer practice is demonstrated.
The missing feature was a common element of most biological interactions, the structural adaptability of the interacting partners.
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