accommodableadj.
/əˈkɒmədəbl/, U.S. /əˈkɑmədəb(ə)l/ Capable of being accommodated; suitable.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective]
goodeOE
rightOE
queemlOE
belonglOE
behovingc1175
limplyc1200
tidefula1300
avenantc1300
mackc1330
worthy1340
hemea1350
convenientc1374
seemlya1375
shapelyc1374
ablea1382
cordant1382
meetc1385
accordable1386
accordinga1387
appurtenantc1386
pertinentc1390
accordanta1393
likea1393
setea1400
throa1400
agreeablec1425
habilec1425
suitly1426
competentc1430
suiting1431
fitc1440
proportionablec1443
justc1450
congruent?a1475
cordinga1475
congruec1475
afferant1480
belonging1483
cordable1485
hovable1508
attainanta1513
accommodate1525
agreeing1533
respondent1533
opportunate?1541
appropriate1544
commode1549
familiar1553
apt1563
pliant1565
liable1570
sortly1570
competible1586
sortable1586
fitty1589
accommodable1592
congruable1603
affining1606
feated1606
suity1607
reputable1611
suited1613
idoneousa1615
matchable1614
suitablea1616
congruous1631
fitten1642
responsal1647
appropriated1651
adapt1658
mack-like1672
squared1698
homogeneous1708
applicable1711
unforeign1718
fitted1736
congenial1738
assorted1790
accommodatable1874
OK1925
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [adjective] > able to be
accommodable1592
fittable1611
accommodative1622
adjustable1768
adjustivec1796
adaptable1800
adaptive1863
1592 H. Wotton Let. 8 May in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) (modernized text) I. 271 To feign myself an accomodable person unto his humour.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. vii. 222 A fit and accommodable condition for such a dignitie.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum 193 That the Title of the Protector might be made accomodable to the Laws.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. v. §4. 406 We must be furnish'd with such general Rules as are accommodable to all this Variety.
1798 G. Papendick tr. A. von Kotzebue Stranger ii. ii. 24 We have a thousand various ways to occupy and amuse the mind which are not accommodable to your sex.
1838 F. Lieber Ess. Penal Law 38 By accommodable punishment I mean that which accommodates itself, by its own nature, to the given case.
1930 Science 28 Feb. 231/1 Every organic unit is plastic or impressionable, and reactive or accommodable.
1969 S. N. Eisenstadt Polit. Syst. Empires (new ed.) xii. iii. 313 (heading) Accommodable change.
2004 J. C. Thomas in J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen Psychopathol. in Workplace i. 5 The country cannot afford to have people, who can be productive, being idle because of an accommodable or treatable mental condition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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