accommodate

accommodate is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
2. transitive verb. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. transitive verb. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
6. adjective. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
7. verb. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

   "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

   Synonyms: adapt

8. verb. make (one thing) compatible with (another)

   "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"

   Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile

9. verb. provide a service or favor for someone

   "We had to oblige him"

   Synonyms: oblige

10. verb. provide with something desired or needed

    "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"

11. verb. provide housing for

    "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"

    Synonyms: lodge

12. verb. be agreeable or acceptable to

    "This suits my needs"

    Synonyms: fit, suit

13. verb. have room for; hold without crowding

    "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"

    "The theater admits 300 people"

    Synonyms: admit, hold

Synonyms

adapt, conciliate, reconcile, oblige, lodge, fit, suit, admit, hold

Common word forms

accommodated, accommodates, accommodately, accommodating, accommodateness

Words from these letters

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