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.]
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1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to
strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
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Have you no touch of pity, that the poor
Stand starved at your inhospitable door? --Cowper.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inhospitable
adj 1: unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable
desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" [ant:
hospitable]
2: not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these days";
"her greeting was cold and inhospitable" [ant: hospitable]
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