Synonyms for adjust
əˈdʒʌstad·just

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1. adjustverb

   Synonyms:
   edit, change, modify

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1. adjust

   Synonyms:
   array, assort, classify, dispose, group, order, place, put in order, put in place, set in order, sort

   Antonyms:
   confuse, crowd out, derange, disarrange, displace, disturb, jumble, mislay, misplace, remove, unsettle

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1. adjust

   Synonyms:
   harmonize, collocate, arrange, localize, adapt, affix, right, suit, classify, set in order, reconcile, accommodate, compose

   Antonyms:
   dislocate, disarrange, disturb, confound, dismember, disorder, confuse, discompose, derange

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1. adjust, set, correctverb

   alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

   "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"

   Synonyms:
   line up, sort out, even off, go under, right, castigate, dress, place, prepare, mark, put, make up, compensate, localize, objurgate, coiffe, fix, fructify, even out, gear up, go down, jell, chasten, decline, position, arrange, define, specify, lay, correct, countersink, plant, determine, coiffure, do, counterbalance, sic, coif, lay out, adapt, align, even up, ready, set up, rectify, discipline, redress, congeal, aline, chastise, limit, conform, set, typeset, rig, slump, pose, localise

2. align, aline, line up, adjustverb

   place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight

   "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"

   Synonyms:
   align, queue, coordinate, ordinate, queue up, correct, come up, set, line up, dress, get hold, find, adapt, array, conform, aline

3. adjust, conform, adaptverb

   adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

   "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

   Synonyms:
   adapt, set, accommodate, align, aline, correct, line up, conform

4. adjustverb

   make correspondent or conformable

   "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   set, align, correct, adapt, line up, conform, aline

5. adjustverb

   decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim

   Synonyms:
   set, align, correct, adapt, line up, conform, aline

Matched Categories

1. • Adapt
   • Decide
   • Get Used To
   • Reorient

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1. adjustverb

   Synonyms:
   arrange, dispose, rectify, trim, put or set in order, put or set to rights, put in tune, put in good trim

2. adjustverb

   Synonyms:
   regulate, set

3. adjustverb

   Synonyms:
   settle, compose, reconcile, make up

4. adjustverb

   Synonyms:
   fit, adapt, suit, proportion, accommodate, measure, make conform, make conformable

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1. List of paraphrases for "adjust":

   adapt, adjustment, adjusting, adjusted, adapting, tailor, fine-tune, tune, fit, readjust, align, readjustment, wrap, setting, set, amend, modify, snap, tuning, readjusting, wrapping, adaptation, modulate, realign, adjusts, fine-tuning, accommodate

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How to use adjust in a sentence?

1. Mitch Abrams:

   Anger is like fire. You can make a great steak with hot fire, but if you can't adjust the flame, you'll burn it up. Success is about learning how to adjust the flame.

2. Zhu Limin:

   The NDRC has said it will adjust just once a year and to change them again would send out a wrong signal.

3. David Schwimmer:

   It was pretty jarring and it messed with my relationship to other people in a way that took years, I think, for me to kind of adjust to and become comfortable with, as an actor, the way I was trained, my job was to observe life and to observe other people, and so I used to walk around with my head up, and really engaged and watching people.

4. Sanita Belgrave:

   If you adjust your sails with every passing yacht, you will soon lose focus of your destination.

5. Don Bacon:

   We're seeing that our junior enlisted, because they're married, have to go on food stamps or [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and I think that's a travesty, i hope in the next Congress I can be part of the team and work with [House Armed Services Committee ranking member] Mike Rogers to build that consensus. We have to adjust our enlisted pay because if pay is not keeping up with our junior ranks they're going to get out right away or just not get in.