Crossword clues for accommodating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accommodating \Ac*com"mo*da`ting\, a. 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.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.]
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. ``They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.''
--Addison.To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
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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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"obliging," 1771, present participle adjective from accommodate.
Wiktionary
affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful; as an '''accommodating''' man, spirit, arrangement. v
(present participle of accommodate English)
WordNet
adj. 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]
obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
Usage examples of "accommodating".
New Riviera was entirely too accommodating to imported species to allow anything out into the wild without official approval, where it would like as not reproduce and thrive like mad.
Outside, the happy and contented citizens of the accommodating world of New Riviera went about their daily concerns, unaware that in an ordinary hotel room not far from where they were walking and talking, a most unusual quartet was calmly discussing Armageddon.
Geneva, and accommodating individuals with clean linen, as the emergency of their occasions required.
It would be nice if Max proved to be as accommodating, but he doubted it.
The multigenerational ripple effect of prolonged illness, grieving, and accommodating overlap in the Megregian-Johannessen homes, as they do in so many families.
It was capable of accommodating up to twenty diners at a time although there were only five crew-members waiting to enter when Gurronsevas and his escort joined them.
Pillar, a military edifice situated within two square miles of bronze-faced outer battlements, and capable of accommodating seventeen jerds, somewhere in the region of seventeen thousand men.
God help him, any other man in Bar-Ibithni, I think, would have been more accommodating than I.
In little time he cultivated an amazing range of friends among the press and in intellectual and financial circles, a number of whom were Jews who, Adams later said, were among the most liberal and accommodating of all.
In justifying his sudden decision to Janoah Eldridge, Willie had merely explained that he had hired Celestina because she was so comfortable to have around, a recommendation at which Wilton would have jeered but which, perhaps, in the eyes of the Lord was quite as praiseworthy as that which her more hidebound but less accommodating sisters could have boasted.
In a genetic sense, your interior, subatomic architecture becomes more adaptable and accommodating to the frequencies of energy that emanate from the centermost section of the Grand Universe.
The chimneypiece was of a rococo design with candle holders, gilded woodwork and a vast mirrored wall, and the table they sat at was of walnut with a marquetry border and capable of accommodating a dozen people.
What this Monroney guy was offering was the first sensible proposition Malachi had seen since coming to this crazy country, an dover the next two and a half years, Malachi made more money than he had ever dreamed of making in ten careers in the Army--in cash, nice, green, untaxable cash, complete with accommodating Chinese bankers in Cholon who could move things around a network of extremely discreet banks all over the world.
The front edge was uneven, accommodating minor local differences in terrain, and a climb to the top would have revealed dips and ridges, seracs, and crevices quite extensive on a human scale, but in relation to its own size, the surface was uniformly level.
With a more accommodating Israeli government, Jerusalem had become a truly international city, overseen in part by a United Nations administrator and open to all races and nationalities.