Found 3 hits - Term: inhospitable, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inhospitable \inhos"pitable\, a. pref. in- not + hospitable:
cf. l. inhospitalis.
1913 webster
1. not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to
strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
1913 webster
have you no touch of pity, that the poor
stand starved at your inhospitable door? --cowper.
1913 webster
2. affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak;
cheerless; wild. "inhospitable wastes." --blair. --
inhos"pitableness, n. -- inhos"pitably, adv.
1913 webster
see also:
inhos"pitableness inhos"pitably
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
inhospitable
adj 1: unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable
desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" ant: hospitable
2: not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these
days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable" ant: hospitable
see also:
hospitable
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "inhospitable":
chill, chilly, closed, cold, cool, disaccordant, disagreeable,
frosty, icy, ill, incompatible, inimical, strained, tense,
unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unbenign, unbenignant,
uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncordial, unfriendly, ungenial,
ungracious, unharmonious, unhospitable, unkind, unkindly, unloving,
unneighborly, unreceptive, unsociable, unsympathetic,
unsympathizing
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