All 13 Uses of
accommodate
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- Daniel Touchett saw before him a life-long residence in his adopted country, of which, from the first, he took a simple, sane and accommodating view.†
Chpt 5 *accommodating = adjusting something to provide for a need; or being helpful
- Ralph had listened with great attention, as if everything she said merited deep consideration; but in truth he was only half thinking of the things she said, he was for the rest simply accommodating himself to the weight of his total impression—the impression of her ardent good faith.†
Chpt 34
- But strangely enough, now that she was face to face with him and although an hour before she had almost invented a scheme for pleasing him, Isabel was not accommodating, would not glide.†
Chpt 41
- Heaven knew that now at least it was a very humble, accommodating way!†
Chpt 42
- She's very accommodating!†
Chpt 48
- You're very accommodating.†
Chpt 48
- Each of these persons is but wheels to the coach; neither belongs to the body of that vehicle, or is for a moment accommodated with a seat inside.†
Chpt Pref.
- With whatever qualifications one would, Lord Warburton had offered her a great opportunity; the situation might have discomforts, might contain oppressive, might contain narrowing elements, might prove really but a stupefying anodyne; but she did her sex no injustice in believing that nineteen women out of twenty would have accommodated themselves to it without a pang.†
Chpt 12
- Ah, you're unaccommodating!†
Chpt 32unaccommodating = not providing forstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccommodating means not and reverses the meaning of accommodating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She had not been extinguished, however, and she struggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an unaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town, where he enjoyed such consideration as might attach to a gentleman whose talent for losing at cards had not the merit of being incidental to an obliging disposition.†
Chpt 44
- From the moment, however, that both the ladies were so unaccommodating, there was nothing for Osmond but to wish the lady from New York would take herself off.†
Chpt 47
- His wife was dead—very true; but she had not been dead too long to put a certain accommodation of dates out of the question—from the moment, I mean, that suspicion wasn't started; which was what they had to take care of.†
Chpt 51
- "They're very good to me—they think of everything!" she exclaimed with all her customary eagerness to accommodate.†
Chpt 52 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed
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(2)
(accommodate as in: moved to accommodate her) adjust something to provide for a need; or help
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(3)
(accommodations as in: hotel accommodations) space, lodgings, or other needs -- such as a hotel room and services