Inhospitable Definition

ĭn-hŏspĭ-tə-bəl, ĭnhŏ-spĭtə-bəl
adjective
Not hospitable; not offering hospitality.
Webster's New World
Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile.
The barren, inhospitable desert.
American Heritage
Not offering protection, shelter, etc.; barren; forbidding.
An inhospitable climate.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Inhospitable

  • From Middle French inhospitable, from Medieval Latin inhospitabilis

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Inhospitable Sentence Examples

  • On the side of Portugal a tract of inhospitable country sled originally to the separation between the two kingdoms, inasmuch as it caused the reconquest of the comparatively populous maritime tracts from the Moors to be carried out independently of that of the eastern kingdoms, which were also well peopled.

  • It was an inhospitable way to treat a guest – especially one who had volunteered so much help.

  • Anti-Lebanon is the barest and most inhospitable part of the system.

  • Both are extremely inhospitable areas with very severe climate conditions.

  • In the end of the 9th century Iceland was colonized from Norway; and about 985 the intrepid viking, Eric the Red, discovered Greenland, and induced some of his Icelandic countrymen to settle on its inhospitable shores.

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