inhospitable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Either of these conditions would make a planet very inhospitable for life.

Modifies a noun

• terrain: Now we were well on our way, flying over the inhospitable terrain, thick with thorn trees.
• desert: The huge tented camp was in the desert, the inhospitable desert, no give just take.
• climate: It starts with the need for shelter in the often inhospitable climate.
• landscape: In this inhospitable landscape, the bikes will have to be man handled across Siberia's network of rivers.
• planet: In a billion years or so the Earth would be just like Mars and Venus, a dry and utterly inhospitable planet.
• environment: Here original pioneer families continue to farm cattle in this inhospitable environment.

Modifying Another Word

• often: It starts with the need for shelter in the often inhospitable climate.
• so: That such a large animal is able to survive in so inhospitable an environment is testament to its evolutionary perfection.
• very: Either of these conditions would make a planet very inhospitable for life.
• seemingly: The garden demonstrated the wide variety of plant material that can become established in the seemingly inhospitable habitat of a disused railroad line.
• extremely: Both are extremely inhospitable areas with very severe climate conditions.
• previously: There are also likely to be some benefits, where some species and societies are able to exploit land that was previously inhospitable.

Used with adjective complement

• become: If the world does become inhospitable in the next few thousand or million years, then it will probably be our own fault.
• make: It is made inhospitable by extreme cold, a massive permanent ice sheet and floating ice shelves.