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Definition: Unaccommodating |
UnaccommodatingAdjective1. Not accommodating; "the unaccommodating bus driver pulled out while she was banging on the door". 2. Offering no assistance; "rudely unaccommodating to the customers"; "icily neutral, disagreeably unhelpful". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unaccommodating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
Synonym: UnaccommodatingSynonym: unobliging (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: accommodating (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disagreement | Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic. |
Discourtesy | Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier. |
Pain | Irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy; awkward. |
Sullenness | Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unaccommodating |
| English words defined with "unaccommodating": disobliging ♦ uncooperative, unobliging. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "unaccommodating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pagjind (disparaging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неуслужлив (disobliging, incompliant, unhelpful, unobliging), неотстъпчив (irreconcilable, rock-ribbed, rocky, severe, sticky, unamenable, unyielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 板板六十四 (rigid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nepřizpùsobený (unregulated), neochotný (disobliging, loth, reluctant, unready, unwilling), neúslužný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mukautumaton (not adaptable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unnachgiebig (adamant, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, procrustean, relentless, unaccomodating, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unflinchingly, unrelenting, unyielding, unyieldingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μη διευκολύνων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | barátságtalan (austere, chilly, cold, crabby, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, gaunt, gruff, ill natured, inhospitable, pouty, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, unaffable, unfriendly, unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchoar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | accommodatingunay pouco cortês, inflexível (die-hard, firm, iron-bound, non-ductile, obdurate, relentless, rigorous, rugged, severe, steadfast, stiff, stony, stubborn, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfeeling, unpersuadable, unrelenting, unshrinking, unyielding), de trato difícil. (various references) nearanjat (rough). (various references) неуступчивый (pertinacious, unyielding). (various references) neuslužan, nepopustljiv (adamant, die hard, iron-bound, uncomplying, unforgiving, unrelenting, unremitting, unyielding), nepogodan (disadvantageous, inapposite, inconvenient, unagreeable, unbefitting), nepodesan (discordant, impaired, improper, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, inept, inexpedient, quaint, unapt, unbefitting, undue, unsuitable, unsuited). (various references) poco complaciente. (various references) omedörlig. (various references) rahatına düşkün (self indulgent), keyfine düşkün (freeliver), eğilmez (inflexible, rigid, unbending, uncompromising). (various references) khó tính (cantankerous, difficile, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, miminy-piminy, nicely, perverse, select), khó giao thiệp hay l m mất lòng, không dễ dãi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-g-i-m-m-n-n-o-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: accommodating. | |
-4 letters: communicant, nondogmatic. | |
-5 letters: accounting, codominant, commandant, commanding, conducting, conduction, monomaniac, outdancing, undogmatic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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