inhospitable
inhospitable
Definition
in·hos·pi·table (in häs′pit ə bəl, in′häs pit′-)
adjective
- not hospitable; not offering hospitality
- not offering protection, shelter, etc.; barren; forbidding an inhospitable climate
Etymology: ML inhospitabilis
in·hos′·pi·table·ness noun
in·hos′·pi·tably adverb
inhospitable
Synonyms
inhospitable
modif.
Unfriendly
unwelcoming, cold, brusque, ungracious; see aloof, rude 2, unfriendly 2.Not offering protection or shelter
forbidding, barren, desolate, uninhabitable; see bleak 1, sterile 2.
inhospitable
Usage Examples
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
Browse dictionary entries near inhospitable
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