ACCOMMODATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accommodating mean? 

• ACCOMMODATING (adjective)
  The adjective ACCOMMODATING has 2 senses:

1. helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation

2. obliging; willing to do favors

  Familiarity information: ACCOMMODATING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOMMODATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation

Synonyms:

accommodating; accommodative

Context example:

made a special effort to be accommodating

Similar:

complaisant; obliging (showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others)

Also:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)

helpful (providing assistance or serving a useful function)

kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)

Antonym:

unaccommodating (not accommodating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obliging; willing to do favors

Context example:

made a special effort to be accommodating

Similar:

helpful (providing assistance or serving a useful function)

 Context examples 

This dilates the pupil, producing mydriasis, and prevents the eye from accommodating.

(Cyclopentolate Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A room or two can easily be added; and if my friends find no difficulty in travelling so far to see me, I am sure I will find none in accommodating them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“The practice is quiet,” said I, “and I have an accommodating neighbour. I should be glad to come.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those, whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)