Search Result for "inhospitable":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. unfavorable to life or growth;
- Example: "the barren inhospitable desert"
- Example: "inhospitable mountain areas"
2. not hospitable;
- Example: "they are extremely inhospitable these days"
- Example: "her greeting was cold and inhospitable"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inhospitable \In*hos"pi*ta*ble\, 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. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]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
