a person who appears in many different situations and who changes their behavior or appearance to suit the situation that they are in at the time:
- Amram is a 20th century musical Zelig, and like that Woody Allen character, he stands at the edge of hundreds of historical photographs, swapping stories with musicians, writers and actors.
- People use the word "Zelig" about me, and I'm not entirely sure how to take it.
- Like a musical Zelig, Dewey has a hand in all the permutations of pop.
- Like the Woody Allen creation, Zelig, there is a chameleon quality to Portsmouth's soccer these days.
- acclimate
- acclimate to something
- acclimation
- acclimatization
- acclimatize
- ambidextrous
- amend
- amendment
- chameleon
- change with/keep up with/move with the times idiom
- configure
- counter-adaptation
- pliantly
- preadaptation
- preadaptive
- put something back
- put something/someone forward
- unadapted
- unamended
- write someone out of something