Satisfy vs Accommodate - What's the difference?
satisfy | accommodate |
To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
* Milton
To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
(dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
* Atterbury
* 1851 ,
To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
(transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
To give consideration to; to allow for.
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
(rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
(label) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
* John Tillotson
In transitive terms the difference between satisfy and accommodate
is that satisfy is to answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for while accommodate is to contain comfortably; to have space for.As an adjective accommodate is
suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.satisfy
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Verb
(en-verb)- I'm not satisfied with the quality of the food here.
- Death shall with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
- The complex numbers satisfy .
- The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying .
- I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
- to satisfy a creditor
- to satisfy a claim or an execution
Antonyms
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* * * English transitive verbsaccommodate
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Verb
(accommodat)- They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -
Synonyms
* suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.Antonyms
* (obsolete) discommodateAdjective
(en adjective)- God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.