inhospitable

Adjective

Meaning

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage stark hard cold wild remote distant cool hostile harsh adverse bare indifferent unfavorable forbidding
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Antonyms

hospitable allied beneficent better positive civil
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Phrases with the word

less inhospitable inhospitable place more inhospitable inhospitable region inhospitable sea

Examples

the barren inhospitable desert Source: Internet

inhospitable mountain areas Source: Internet

they are extremely inhospitable these days Source: Internet

her greeting was cold and inhospitable Source: Internet

Aberdeen Harbour from the Air Geologists had speculated about the existence of oil and gas in the North Sea since the middle of the 20th century, but tapping its deep and inhospitable waters was another story. Source: Internet

A micro-environment pH above 7.5 is inhospitable for manganese-concentrating microbes. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

inhomogenous inhomogenously inhoop inhospitable place inhospitable region inhospitable sea