He received his education in Belgrade (1888), Vienna and in Berlin (1898), where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Die Vegetationsverhaltnisse Ostserbiens.
In the mentor Richard Wettstein, he had an important advocate for his research stays in the regions of the Danube lowlands, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Thrace, Thessaly, as well as the Apennine Peninsula, through which he got a comprehensive knowledge of the plant formations of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean region.
Adamović coined the terms Šibljak and pseudomacchie for shrubbery formations of these karst countries of the Dinarides, which have found their way into the terminology of vegetation geography.
Adamović was the only botanist in Montenegro after Josif Pančić to collect plants again on the Velika Jastrebica in the Bijela gora.
He published more than 60 scientific papers and books and described some new plant species and taxa.>[9] After retirement, he returned to Dubrovnik, where he died in 1935, at the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.