Disaccommodating

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Unwilling to make adjustments or concessions for the needs, wishes or convenience of other people
2. Refusing to adapt or oblige, showing a stubborn lack of willingness to help others
3. Describing someone who is inflexible and disinclined to meet the requirements or comfort of others

Etymology: Disaccommodating is a participle built from "disaccommodate," which is simply "dis-" added to "accommodate." The prefix "dis-" reverses or negates the verb, so the word means the opposite of accommodating: failing to adapt to, or refusing to meet, someone's needs or convenience. The stem is "accommodate," which came into English from Latin "accommodare," a compound of "ad-" (toward) and "commodare" (to make fit or suitable). That Latin root, "commodus," meant convenient, fitting or proper, the same root behind "commodity" and "commodious." "Accommodate" first appears in English in the 1500s, and "disaccommodate" followed with the same prefix, first attested in the late 1500s.

Synonyms: unaccommodating, uncooperative, inflexible

Antonyms: accommodating, obliging, helpful