accommodating

Willing to adjust

Accommodating describes someone willing to adjust to others' needs or wishes.

An accommodating host makes guests comfortable; an accommodating schedule bends to fit constraints.

The word suggests helpfulness and flexibility, though it can imply excessive eagerness to please: He was too accommodating to say no.

adaptable

flexible

Able to bend freely

modifiable · compliant · convertible · tailorable · elastic · alterable · reconfigurable · customizable · variable · scalable

deferential

compliant

Yielding to others' wishes

obedient · docile · tractable · biddable · pliant · submissive · undemanding · agreeable · meek · passive

helpful

supportive

Offering help and reassurance

service-oriented · responsive · facilitative · willing · ready · available · reliable · dependable · useful · handy

considerate

thoughtful

Showing careful consideration

patient · respectful · sensitive · caring · gracious · attentive · empathetic · tactful · courteous · gentle

hospitable

welcoming

Receiving others warmly

  • warmModerately heated, or friendly
  • friendlyShowing kindness, warmth
  • cordialWarmly friendly manner

genial · gracious · inviting · receptive · open-armed · neighborly · congenial · approachable · sociable · affable

spacious

roomy

Having generous interior space

generous · sizeable · expansive · large · broad · voluminous · comfortable · open · airy · cavernous

Categories
Opposites
willingness to help or oblige others

accommodatingunaccommodating

Unwilling to help others

unhelpful · uncooperative · disobliging · inconsiderate · selfish

flexibility in expectations and demands

accommodatingdemanding

Requiring great effort

exacting · rigid · inflexible · unyielding · strict

willingness to help or please others

accommodatingunhelpful

Not providing assistance

uncooperative · unaccommodating · disobliging · inconsiderate · selfish

Phrases
Family

accommodation, accommodations, unaccommodating, accommodatingly, accommodative

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G