unaccommodated

[uhn-uh-kom-uh-dey-tid]

adjective

1. not accommodated; not adapted.

2. not having accommodations.

3. not furnished with something wanted or needed; not given satisfaction.

   customers left unaccommodated at the counter.

unaccommodated

/ ˌʌnəˈkɒməˌdeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. not suitable or apt; not adapted

2. unprovided for

Word History and Origins

Origin of unaccommodated¹

1595–1605; un- ¹ + accommodate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”

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The unaccommodated brain is a poor, bare thing indeed.

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As her network expanded and she learned of the host of ways in which people with many different kinds of disabilities were shortchanged and unaccommodated and discriminated against, the scope of her ambition to make change only grew.

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Not accommodating disabled people is costly, too; when the disability is invisible, it often goes unaccommodated, A.D.A. or no A.D.A.

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“When Lear talks of being ‘unaccommodated man’ he must be naked,” he said, “anything less would be dishonest.”

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