Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Displaying no hospitality; unfriendly.
- adjective Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not hospitable; indisposed to exercise hospitality; unfavorable or inimical to visitors; not affording accommodation or shelter: as, an inhospitable tribe; inhospitable wilds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests.
- adjective Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person Not inclined to
hospitality ;unfriendly , - adjective of a place Not offering
shelter ;barren orforbidding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not hospitable
- adjective unfavorable to life or growth
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Examples
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If he wins, they say, it will be because he has run tough races before in inhospitable territory.
Loyalty to Obama Costs Democrats Jonathan Weisman 2010
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Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
February 8th, 2006 2006
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The dishonour of being inhospitable is of far less import than the dishonour of being "detestable" in the eyes of God.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists and students from USC.
Tech and Science 2005
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The soil, though at first it might have been, called inhospitable, showed itself productive.
The Purchase Price Emerson Hough 1890
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Clearly, among the many implications of the awarding of yet another Pentagon contract to the Lincoln Group, this fall, is that they are being funded, as their Web site advertises, to continue their work around the world in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and any other locations that some might consider "inhospitable," but that they prefer to call "challenging."
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This satisfies the typical hacker need for compact and independent programs that have to work in "inhospitable" environments; rootkits and backdoors seem to be interesting applications.
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A number of countries delayed the arrival of their competitors with the athletes' village being described as "inhospitable" just last week.
BBC News - Home 2010
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The Digital Home Video: Is the Wii 'inhospitable' for third-parties?
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The Digital Home Video: Is the Wii 'inhospitable' for third-parties?
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