Accommodate
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Verb
Accommodate (third-person singular simple present Accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
- (transitive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
- (transitive) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
- (transitive) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle
Adverbs for Accommodate
effectually; appreciatively; easily; nobly; amiably; freely; generously; beneficently; benignly; graciously; impartially; magnanimously; altruistically; benignantly; legally; legitimately.
Synonyms for Accommodate
To suit, adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, serve, arrange, harmonize, oblige, furnish, conform, adapt, supply, fit, reconcile, fashion.
Antonyms for Accommodate
- (obsolete) discommodate
- impede, stop, unsuit, disarrange, hinder, obstruct, embarrass, prevent, limit.
Thesaurus
acclimate; acclimatize; accommodate; accommodate with; accord; accustom; adapt; adapt to; adjust; adjust to; advance; afford; agree with; alter; ameliorate; arrange; arrange matters; assimilate; assimilate to; attune; balance; be guided by; bend; bestow; better; billet; board; bow; break; break in; break up; bring to terms; bring together; cancel; case harden; cater to; change; chime in with; close; close with; clothe; compensate; comply; comply with; compose; compound; compromise; conclude; condition; confirm; conform; contribute; convenience; convert; coordinate; cop out; correct; correspond; counterbalance; counterpoise; countervail; cut to; defer; deform; denature; discipline; diversify; do a favor; do a service; do right by; domesticate; domesticize; domicile; domiciliate; donate; duck responsibility; encase; enclose; endow; entertain; equalize; equate; equip; establish; evade responsibility; even; even up; fall in with; familiarize; favor; favor with; fill; fill up; find; fit; fix; fix up; float a loan; follow; fund; furnish; furnish accommodations; gear to; gentle; give; give and take; give way; go by; go fifty-fifty; habituate; harbor; harden; harmonize; heal the breach; heap upon; hold; homologate; homologize; house; housebreak; humor; improve; indulge; indulge with; integrate; inure; invest; keep; key to; lavish upon; lease-lend; lend; lend-lease; level; loan; loan-shark; lodge; maintain; make a deal; make an adjustment; make available; make concessions; make conform; make plumb; make provision for; make uniform; make up; measure; mediate; meet; meet halfway; meliorate; mitigate; modify; modulate; mold; mutate; naturalize; negotiate a loan; oblige; observe; orient; orient the map; orientate; overthrow; patch things up; play politics; poise; pour on; prepare; present; proportion; provide; provide for; put in tune; put up; quadrate; qualify; quarter; re-create; reach a compromise; realign; rebuild; reconcile; reconstruct; recruit; rectify; redesign; refit; reform; regulate; remake; renew; replenish; reshape; resolve; restore harmony; restructure; reunite; revamp; revive; right; ring the changes; rub off corners; season; serve; set; set right; settle; settle differences; settle with; shape; shelter; shift the scene; show kindness to; shower down upon; shuffle the cards; similarize; smooth it over; split the difference; square; stock; store; straighten; straighten out; strike a balance; strike a bargain; submit; subsidize; subvert; suit; supply; support; surrender; sync; synchronize; tailor; take the mean; tally with; tame; train; treat well; trim to; true; true up; tune; turn the scale; turn the tables; turn the tide; turn upside down; vary; weave peace between; wont; work a change; work out; worsen; yield
Etymology
From Latin accomodātus, perfect passive participle of accomodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com + modus (“measure, proportion”). See mode.
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