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Found 4 hits - Term: accommodating, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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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