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under-accommodating

under-accommodating is the present participle and gerund of under-accommodate.

Meaning of under-accommodate

Verb

under-accommodate (third-person singular simple present under-accommodates, present participle under-accommodating, simple past and past participle under-accommodated)

  1. To adjust the focal point of the eye so that the image of the target falls short of the retina.
    • The mean refractive error at six metres for the subjects was !-0.14D. and so the average total accommodation exerted was (0.14 + 2.51) 2.65D. for a dioptric distance of 3.0D. Thus, all of the observers under-accommodated for the near fixation distance when white light was used.1963, British journal of physiological optics
  2. To inadequately accommodate; to fail to make enough adjustments or allowances to meet another's needs.
    • It is her job to neither over-accommodate nor under-accommodate the employees' needs.2003, Labour arbitration cases, page 422

Adjective

under-accommodating (comparative more under-accommodating, superlative most under-accommodating)

  1. Insufficiently accommodating.
    • The application of CAT to intergenerational interaction has shown that younger adults perceive older adults' talk as under-accommodating, i.e. extensively diverging from the interlocutor's style, topics introduced, and their own as over-accommodating, that is, as converging to the interlocutor's...2012, Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer, Pragmatics of Society, →ISBN, page 38
    • However, children's under-accommodating communication could induce elders' ambivalent feelings.2016, Lin Chen, Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China: Two Generations, One Decision, →ISBN

Forms of under-accommodating

comparativemore under-accommodating
superlativemost under-accommodating

Questions about under-accommodating

What does under-accommodating mean?
Under-accommodating means insufficiently accommodating.
What is under-accommodating the present participle and gerund of?
Under-accommodating is the present participle and gerund of under-accommodate.
What part of speech is under-accommodating?
Under-accommodating is an adjective.

Words near under-accommodating in the dictionary

  1. under wraps
  2. under-
  3. under-accommodate
  4. under-accommodated
  5. under-accommodates
  6. under-accommodating
  7. under-accommodation
  8. under-approximate
  9. under-approximated
  10. under-approximates
  11. under-approximating

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