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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accommodating \accom"moda`ting\, a.
affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as
an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accommodate \accom"modate\, v. t. imp. p. p.
accommodated; p. pr. vb. n. accommodating. l.
accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make
fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. see mode.
1. to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to
conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
"they accommodate their counsels to his inclination."
--addison.
1913 webster
2. to bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
differences, a dispute, etc.
1913 webster
3. to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
loan or with lodgings.
1913 webster
4. to show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by
analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental
circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to
accommodate prophecy to events.
1913 webster
syn: to suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
1913 webster
see also:
accommodated accommodating mode
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
accommodating
adj 1: helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the
warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors
in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating" syn:
accommodative ant: unaccommodating
2: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be
accommodating"
see also:
accommodative unaccommodating
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
64 moby thesaurus words for "accommodating":
accessible, accommodative, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive,
adjusting, affable, agreeable, amenable, amiable, attentive,
benevolent, benign, benignant, bribable, civil, complaisant,
compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, corruptible,
courteous, decent, deferential, delicate, fair, friendly, generous,
graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, hospitable, humble,
indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, meek, mindful, mindful of others,
obedient, obliging, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive,
permissive, pliable, pliant, polite, reconciled, regardful,
resigned, respectful, solicitous, submissive, tactful, thoughtful,
tolerant, uncomplaining, unresisting, urbane, yielding
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