inhospitable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=hos=pi=ta=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

inhospitable, a. [Pref. in- not + hospitable: cf. L. inhospitalis.].

•  Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.  [1913 Webster]

  "Have you no touch of pity, that the poor
  Stand starved at your inhospitable door?"  [1913 Webster]
•  Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.  Blair.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inhospitable, adj.
1 not hospitable.
2 (of a region, coast, etc.) not affording shelter etc.

Derivative

inhospitableness n. inhospitably adv.

Etymology

obs. F (as IN-(1), HOSPITABLE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inhospitable

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.