unaccommodated
Americanadjective
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not accommodated; not adapted.
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not having accommodations.
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not furnished with something wanted or needed; not given satisfaction.
customers left unaccommodated at the counter.
adjective
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not suitable or apt; not adapted
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unprovided for
Etymology
Origin of unaccommodated
1595–1605; un- 1 + accommodate ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The unaccommodated brain is a poor, bare thing indeed.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021
Like Lear, the role she came out of retirement to play in London two years ago, Jackson seems to have grown antipathetic to the finery that conceals the truth of unaccommodated man.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2018
In his foray into town, shivering, soaked, his mind cast adrift from its moorings, Sir could be Lear's naked "unaccommodated man" shorn of all sense, vanity and power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her friend, a gifted writer named Messenger, unaccommodated by big-league literary life and politics, feels that he is second-string.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were some ladies and several gentlemen standing about yet unaccommodated with seats.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
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