Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; ; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed
not would express. - Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as,
unavoidable ,unconscionable ,undeniable ,unspeakable ,unprecedented ,unruly , and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as,unaccountable ,unalloyed ,unbelieving ,unpretending ,unreserved , and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as,uncertain ,uneven , and the like. - Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated.
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Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as,unbelief ,unfaith ,unhealth ,unrest ,untruth , and the like.
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- adjective Not
accomodating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective offering no assistance
- adjective not accommodating
Etymologies
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Examples
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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They routinely confront verbal, physical, and emotional assault in and around the buildings purported to be their safe havens, often while already struggling with issues of self-worth precipitated by an unaccommodating society.
Tim Shriver Jr.: Bullying Revisited: Retarded? Tim Shriver Jr. 2011
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But lawyers at one firm familiar with Glaxo's program criticized it as unaccommodating in requiring firms to specify time and labor estimates that—particularly for convoluted, higher-stakes work—are extremely variable.
Pricing Tactic Spooks Lawyers Patrick G. Lee 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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The owners of paradise.com and utopia.com were similarly unaccommodating.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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Misfits may be perfectly fine pegs in a world of unaccommodating holes.
David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island M.D. David Katz 2011
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