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

The unaccommodated brain is a poor, bare thing indeed.

From New York Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From New York Times

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

From The Guardian

Purdy contemplates the potential devastation—the friendliest, nearest-term end of the the disaster-scenario spectrum laid out by David Wallace-Wells in “The Uninhabitable Earth,” but still no picnic—and thinks of the fate of what King Lear calls “unaccommodated man,” defenseless and soggy, “like an oyster ripped from its shell.”

From The New Yorker