Accommodate

Quick meaning: Accommodate is a verb meaning (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

Meaning

(transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
2. (transitive) To provide housing for.
3. (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.
4. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

to accommodate differences

to accommodate prophecy to events

to accommodate a friend with a loan

to accommodate an old friend for a week

Word Forms

• accommodates
• accommodating
• accommodated

Synonyms for accommodate

Depending on context, synonyms include adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit, reconcile.

Antonyms for accommodate

Common opposites include discommodate, disoblige.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adapt, fit, admit, reconcile, conciliate, oblige.

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