Difference between Variable and Adaptable

What is the difference between Variable and Adaptable?

Variable as an adjective is able to vary while Adaptable as an adjective is capable of adapting or of being adapted.

Variable

Part of speech: noun

Definition: something that is variable something whose value may be dictated or discovered a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values a symbol representing a variable a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them a variable star

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: able to vary likely to vary marked by diversity or difference having no fixed quantitative value tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type

Example sentence: There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Adaptable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Capable of adapting or of being adapted.

Example sentence: If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

We hope you now know whether to use Variable or Adaptable in your sentence.

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