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Definition: Accommodating |
AccommodatingAdjective1. Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating". 2. Obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accommodating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonym: AccommodatingSynonym: accommodative (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unaccommodating (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Adjective: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Accommodating |
| English words defined with "accommodating": accommodative ♦ full-length ♦ unaccommodating, unobliging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "accommodating": Accommodation Note Or Paper ♦ Babcock plan ♦ hoist travelling trolly ♦ miscellaneous apparatus rack, moving slot ♦ subscribers'line and final selector unit, survival craft. (references) |
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Screenplays | I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The accommodating cop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Moliere | I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue. |
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Business | In 1998, Mar del Plata a major fishing port and beach resort 300 miles South of Buenos Aires City, was dredged with the intention of accommodating larger ships. (references) | |
HCF has over 50 dentists in five centers, accommodating more than 80,000 member visits in 1999, an increase of 30% on the number of visits in 1998. The centers enable members to receive dental products and services at little or no "out-of-pocket" expense. (references) | ||
Children | Taiwan | In 2000 the MOI assisted city and county governments in establishing 10 daycare facilities and 18 child protection centers, accommodating more than 1,400 children and investigating over 1,300 cases. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | Officials within the Ministry of Information became more accommodating to requests from foreign journalists. (references) |
Zambia | The Government cooperated with the UNHCR in processing applications for refugee status, and in accommodating the refugees. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Moreover, some local fast food outlets are already making inroads, being more successful and more accommodating to the Saudi tastes. (references) |
Kenya | To successfully enter the Kenyan market, U.S. franchisers will need to reassess franchising terms with a view to accommodating local conditions. (references) | |
Nepal | Foreign investors constantly complain about complex and opaque government procedures and a working-level attitude that is more hostile than accommodating. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWITZERLAND | The SNB carefully watches for signs of upward pressure on the franc (the overvalued franc was partly to blame for the economic stagnation of the early/mid 1990s). The SNB has shown its willingness to follow an accommodating money supply policy, even to exceed its money supply growth targets when necessary, to minimize upward pressure on the franc. (references) |
Political Rights | Antigua and Barbuda | The Constitution provides for a multiparty political system accommodating a wide spectrum of political viewpoints. (references) |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | Once Saudi Arabia is admitted, the country's trade regime should become more transparent and more accommodating to non-Saudi businesses. (references) |
Travel | Australia | Its convention centers and trade show facilities in capital cities and resort areas offer state-of-the-art technology, some accommodating as many as 10,000 delegates. (references) |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Whether the subsequent communications from this Government, affording an occasion for reconsidering the subject on the part of Great Britain, will be viewed in a more favorable light or received in a more accommodating spirit remains to be known. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By allowing each party to participate in the transportation of such supplies on the payment of equal tonnage a strong proof was afforded of an accommodating spirit. |
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| "Accommodating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.42% of the time. "Accommodating" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.42% | 146 | 26,107 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.61% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.96% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 153 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "accommodating": Accommodating policy. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "accommodating": all-accommodating, ever-accommodating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accommodating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | behulpsaam (helpful). (various references) | |
Albanian | që nuk prish qejf, i shkrueshëm, i gjindshëm (complaisant, helpful, officious, willing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | услужлив (complaisant, compliant, helpful, obliging, serviceable), сговорчив (appeasable, facile, manageable, tractable), разбран (understood), любезен (affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), приспособяващ се, пригаждащ се. (various references) | |
Chinese | 容纳 (Accommodate, Accommodated). (various references) | |
Czech | ochotný (compliant, forthcoming, helpful, obliging, ready, ungrudging, willing), úslužný (complaisant, helpful, obliging). (various references) | |
Dutch | toegevend (good-hearted), meegaand. (various references) | |
Esperanto | konsentema (good-hearted), helpema (helpful), cedema. (various references) | |
Finnish | sopuisa (compliant, peaceable), myöntyväinen (compliant, indulgent, permissive, yielding), mukautuva (adaptable, compliant). (various references) | |
French | accommodant. (various references) | |
German | kulant (fair, generous, obliging), gefällig (accommodatingly, complaisant, complaisantly, compliant, compliantly, favorable, favourable, graceful, gracefully, helpful, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, winsomely), entgegenkommend (co operative, complaisant, complaisantly, compliant, forthcoming, obliging, oncoming). (various references) | |
Greek | συμβιβαστικόσ (conciliatory, reconciliatory), βολικόσ (convenient, handy), που στεγάζεται, υποχρεωτικόσ (bounden, complaisant, compulsive, incumbent, obligational, obligatory, obliging), εξυπηρετικός (helpful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szolgálatkész (complacent, complaisant, compliant, helpful, obliging, officious, taut). (various references) | |
Italian | servizievole (helpful), compiacente (accommodatingly, complaisant, compliant, easygoing, obliging, pleasant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 融通がきく (to be accommodating, to be flexible). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうづうがきく (to be accommodating, to be flexible). (various references) | |
Korean | 수용. (various references) | |
Manx | obligaidagh, keainal (civil, civil as person, fond, lenient, obliging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accommodatingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amável (affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, complimentary, courteous, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-humoured, good-natured, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, obsequious, pleasing, sociable, sporty, sweet, well-natured), acomodatício (accommodative, supple), acomodar (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, arrange, attemper, attune, berth, compose, contain, have room for, have space for, locate, place, put up, settle, tune), suportável (bearable, endurable, livable, liveable, portable, possible, tolerable), serviçal (helpful, officious, pageboy, peon, servitor), que aceita tudo, obsequioso (kind, obliging, obsequious). (various references) | |
Romanian | serviabil (helpful, obliging, willing), culant, conciliabil (reconcilable), îndatoritor (obliging, obligingly), înţelegãtor (gentle, gently, rational, sympathetic). (various references) | |
Russian | уживчивый (easygoing, livable, liveable), вмещающий, приспосабливающийся (acclimatable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | predusretljiv (affable, attentive, receptive). (various references) | |
Spanish | servicial (accommodation, helpful, obliging, serviceable), oficioso (helpful, informal, officious, unofficial), complaciente (accommodatingly, compliant, indulgent, obliging, pleasant, willing, yielding). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillmötesgående (accommodation, complaisance, compliant, concession, courtesy, forthcoming, friendliness), medgörlig (accomodating, amenable, easy, flexible, placable, reasonable, tractable). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyumlu (canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), uysal (acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), uygun (acceptable, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), mezhebi geniş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сговірливий, люб'язний (affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, courteous, dear, good, kind, nice, obliging, polite), ласкавий (affectionate, benign, grandmotherly, soft), лагідний (appeasable, benign, dovelike, gentle, lamblike, livable, meek, pacable, placable), прислужливий, поступливий (appeasable, compliant, concessive, easy, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xuề xo hay giúp đỡ, sẵn lòng giúp đỡ (obliging), hay l m ơn, dễ tính, dễ dãi (good-humored, good-humoured). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accommodating": accommodatingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "accommodating": unaccommodating. (additional references) | |
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"Accommodating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomodating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accommodating" (pronounced ukÄ"mudā'ting) |
| 7 | -m u d ā' t i ng | intimidating. |
| 6 | -u d ā' t i ng | consolidating, invalidating, liquidating, validating. |
| 5 | -d ā' t i ng | inundating, mandating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intoxicating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, litigating, locating, lubricating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-g-i-m-m-n-o-o-t" | |
-4 letters: gammadion, monatomic, monogamic. | |
-5 letters: ammoniac, ammonoid, anatomic, coacting, coaction, commando, contagia, dogmatic, magmatic, manatoid, mandioca, monoacid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-g-i-m-m-n-o-o-t" | |
+2 letters: accommodatingly, unaccommodating. | |
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