Definitions
acquired as your own by free choice
Word origin
From adopt + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“My adoptive parents recently got to know my biological parents.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Taken in as family”8 letters
02“Chosen as family”8 letters
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