under-accommodating

English

Verb

under-accommodating

  1. present participle and gerund of under-accommodate

Adjective

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

  1. Insufficiently accommodating.
    • 2012, Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer, Pragmatics of Society, →ISBN, page 38:
      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 style and to viewpoint that the recipient will presumably share (cf. e.g. Ylänne-McEwen 1999).
    • 2016, Lin Chen, Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China: Two Generations, One Decision, →ISBN:
      However, children's under-accommodating communication could induce elders' ambivalent feelings.
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