In an adaptive predistorter type distortion compensating apparatus for calculating a distortion compensating coefficient by using an adaptive algorithm so as to reduce an error between a reference signal and a feedback signal of a circuit which generates a distortion on the basis of the reference signal, and for compensating the distortion by providing the distortion compensating coefficient to the reference signal, a phase adjustment circuit is provided for determining a phase shift value which reduces a phase difference between a reference signal and a feedback signal, for correcting the phase of the reference signal or the feedback signal by the phase shift value, and for calculating the distortion compensating apparatus after the correction.