ACCOMMODATING

accommodating, accommodative

(adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; “the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in”; “made a special effort to be accommodating”

accommodating

(adjective) obliging; willing to do favors; “made a special effort to be accommodating”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

accommodating (comparative more accommodating, superlative most accommodating)

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.

Pliable; easily corrupted.

Verb

accommodating

present participle of accommodate

Source: Wiktionary


Ac*com"mo*da`ting, a.

Definition: Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

ACCOMMODATE

Ac*com"mo*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating.] Etym: [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 accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

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.

Syn.

– To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

Ac*com"mo*date, v. i.

Definition: To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.

Ac*com"mo*date, a. Etym: [L. accommodatus, p.p. of accommodare.]

Definition: Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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