accommodating

accommodating
    adj 1: helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the
           warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in";
           "made a special effort to be accommodating" [syn:
           {accommodating}, {accommodative}] [ant:
           {unaccommodating}, {unobliging}]
    2: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be
       accommodating"
    

Accommodating \Ac*com"mo*da`ting\, a.
   Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as
   an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
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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}.]
   1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to
      conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
      "They accommodate their counsels to his inclination."
      --Addison.
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   2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
      compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
      differences, a dispute, etc.
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   3. 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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   4. 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.
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   Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "accommodating":
      accessible, accommodative, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive,
      adjusting, affable, agreeable, amenable, amiable, attentive,
      benevolent, benign, benignant, bribable, civil, complaisant,
      compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, corruptible,
      courteous, decent, deferential, delicate, fair, friendly, generous,
      graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, hospitable, humble,
      indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, meek, mindful, mindful of others,
      obedient, obliging, overindulgent, overpermissive, passive,
      permissive, pliable, pliant, polite, reconciled, regardful,
      resigned, respectful, solicitous, submissive, tactful, thoughtful,
      tolerant, uncomplaining, unresisting, urbane, yielding