inhospitable
not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
(of a region, climate, etc.) not offering shelter, favorable conditions, etc.; barren: an inhospitable rocky coast.
Origin of inhospitable
1Other words from inhospitable
- in·hos·pi·ta·ble·ness, noun
- in·hos·pi·ta·bly, adverb
Words Nearby inhospitable
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How to use inhospitable in a sentence
These inhospitable conditions led to the extinction of 76 percent of Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs.
An asteroid didn’t kill the dinosaurs by itself. Earth helped. | Kate Baggaley | September 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThis can make the soil inhospitable to native plants and tree seedlings and far more likely to erode.
Invasive jumping worms damage U.S. soil and threaten forests | Megan Sever | September 29, 2020 | Science NewsSome scientists contend that life on our planet arose in such seemingly inhospitable conditions.
Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs | Jack J. Lee | September 24, 2020 | Science NewsThough Venus is pretty inhospitable today, “Earth and Venus likely had very similar starting conditions, and recent work has shown that Venus may have been habitable, with surface liquid water oceans, as recently as a billion years ago,” he says.
Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life | Neel Patel | September 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewApple was eager to arrive in India, but the country has been a somewhat inhospitable host.
Apple’s iPhone sales have lagged in India for years. It’s only now unleashing its branding firepower | Grady McGregor | September 6, 2020 | Fortune
In particular San Francisco is notoriously inhospitable to families, with the lowest percentage of kids of any major city.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay | Joel Kotkin | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe live on the edge of food scarcity and are slowly making our water and land inhospitable to growing crops.
America’s Next Agricultural Revolution Will Happen Indoors | Sarah Kunst | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe planet has few more inhospitable places than where MH370 likely went down.
Be careful, it advised, your reaction could be misconceived as inhospitable.
Most important, they won elections in what might have otherwise been inhospitable territory.
GOP Needs More Northeast Republicans to Save the Party | John Avlon | January 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey both consist of naked, inhospitable masses of rock, and serve at most as resting places for a few gulls.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferIt came out of unknown and inhospitable mystery, and went into a mystery equally unknown and inhospitable.
Overland | John William De ForestIt is in the northern sea, near the inhospitable Gulf of Stavanger, and in the 59th degree of latitude.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoThe summits of the higher ones were constantly swept by the flakes of foam, and promised nothing but an inhospitable drenching.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoMackenzie had a bruised and heavy feeling about him as he shouldered his pack and hurried from that inhospitable door.
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek | George W. Ogden
British Dictionary definitions for inhospitable
/ (ɪnˈhɒspɪtəbəl, ˌɪnhɒˈspɪt-) /
not hospitable; unfriendly
(of a region, an environment, etc) lacking a favourable climate, terrain, etc
Derived forms of inhospitable
- inhospitableness, noun
- inhospitably, adverb
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