- (of a parent, child or family)
in that relationship as a result of the parent legally adopting the child 收养的;有收养关系的 his adoptive father 他的养父
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAdoptive is used with these nouns:- family
- father
- mother
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin adoptivus, from adoptare ‘select for oneself’, from ad- ‘to’ + optare ‘choose’.