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Accommodating   /əkˈɑmədˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Accommodating

adjective
1.
Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation.  Synonym: accommodative.  "Made a special effort to be accommodating"
2.
Obliging; willing to do favors.


Accommodate

verb
(past & past part. accommodated; pres. part. accommodating)
1.
Be agreeable or acceptable to.  Synonyms: fit, suit.
2.
Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.  Synonym: adapt.
3.
Provide with something desired or needed.
4.
Have room for; hold without crowding.  Synonyms: admit, hold.  "The theater admits 300 people" , "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"
5.
Provide housing for.  Synonym: lodge.
6.
Provide a service or favor for someone.  Synonym: oblige.
7.
Make (one thing) compatible with (another).  Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile.



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"Accommodating" Quotes from Famous Books



... genius of the Officium was less accommodating than he had anticipated. It might be that he was jealous of the soldiery, or of their particular interference, or indignant at the butchery at the great gate, of which the news had just come, or out ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... ill-chosen studies, rendered me reserved, unsociable, and almost deranged my reason. Though my taste had not preserved me from silly unmeaning books, by good fortune I was a stranger to licentious or obscene ones; not that La Tribu (who was very accommodating) had any scruple of lending these, on the contrary, to enhance their worth she spoke of them with an air of mystery; this produced an effect she had not foreseen, for both shame and disgust made me constantly ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... said after a time, accommodating the speed of his horse to that of the wagon in which the girls rode. His manner had brightened perceptibly since the beginning of the journey, and he spoke lightly. "Yet I feared that you might be annoyed by the smell of fish. They are oyster ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison
... ignorance of society. A year ago iron had been discovered upon their property, and the result had been wealth and misery for father and daughter. The mother, who had some vague fancies of the attractions of the great outside world, was ambitious and restless. Monsieur, who was a mild and accommodating person, could only give way before ...
— Esmeralda • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... to strengthen me in my pre-conceived idea, that Cumberland was accommodating his play to that of Oaklands, whom, I felt certain, he could have beaten easily, if he had been so inclined. If this were really the case, the only conclusion one could come to was, that the whole thing was ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley


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