1.
[syn: accommodating, accommodative]
2. obliging; willing to do favors;
- Example: "made a special effort to be accommodating"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Accommodating \Ac*com"mo*da`ting\, a.
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as
an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, 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.
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2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
differences, a dispute, etc.
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3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
loan or with lodgings.
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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.
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Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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:
accommodating, accommodative] [ant:
unaccommodating, unobliging]
2: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be
accommodating"
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