Inhospitable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Displaying no hospitality; unfriendly.
  • adj. Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile: the barren, inhospitable desert.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly,
  • adj. Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests.
  • adj. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not hospitable; indisposed to exercise hospitality; unfavorable or inimical to visitors; not affording accommodation or shelter: as, an inhospitable tribe; inhospitable wilds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not hospitable
  • adj. unfavorable to life or growth
  • Equivalent
    wild    waste    uncongenial    desolate    windswept   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    barren    desert    bleak    cheerless    wild   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arid    uninhabited    bleak    barren    inaccessible