Inhospitable
[,ɪnhɒ'spɪtəb(ə)l;ɪn'hɒspɪt-] or [,ɪnhɑ'spɪtəbl]
Definition
(adj.) unfavorable to life or growth; 'the barren inhospitable desert'; 'inhospitable mountain areas' .
(adj.) not hospitable; 'they are extremely inhospitable these days'; 'her greeting was cold and inhospitable' .
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Definition
(a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
(a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unfriendly (to strangers), unkind, not hospitable.
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Definition
adj. affording no kindness to strangers.—ns. Inhos′pitableness Inhospital′ity want of hospitality or courtesy to strangers.—adv. Inhos′pitably.
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Examples
- If they knocked at my heart sometimes, an inhospitable bar to admission must be inwardly drawn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Shirley, who could not be inhospitable, now called out the neglected pair in the oak parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Leaving Madame Walravens' inhospitable salon, I betook myself to her cold staircase; there was a seat on the landing--there I waited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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