accommodable

English

Etymology

From Middle French accomodable.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkɒmədəb(ə)l/

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Adjective

accommodable (comparative more accommodable, superlative most accommodable)

1. That may be accommodated. [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: accommodatable

   Antonym: unaccommodable

   Near-synonym: suitable

   The law requires employers to accommodate workers' disabilities to the extent that each disability is accommodable in the context. An example of an unaccommodable disability is blindness in the context of an airliner-pilot role.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., Essayes, page 222:

     who besides that, should also bee of a fit and accommodable condition for such a dignitie.

Derived terms

• accommodableness
• unaccommodable