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