Fulfil vs Accommodate - What's the difference?
fulfil | accommodate |
(archaic) To fill up.
* 1870 , James Thomson,
To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
(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
As verbs the difference between fulfil and accommodate
is that fulfil is (archaic) to fill up while accommodate is (transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.As an adjective accommodate is
(label) suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.fulfil
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Alternative forms
* (US)Verb
(fulfill)- My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.
- The silence which benumbs or strains the sense
- Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
- You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfil it.
- This job fulfils me in a way my last one never did.
- Unfortunately, you don't fulfil the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
Derived terms
* (UK) - fulfilment, fulfilled, fulfilling, fulfillable * unfulfilledaccommodate
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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.