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inhospitable

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[ UK /ɪnhɒspˈɪtəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnhɑˈspɪtəbəɫ, ɪnˈhɑspətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unfavorable to life or growth
    inhospitable mountain areas
    the barren inhospitable desert
  2. not hospitable
    they are extremely inhospitable these days
    her greeting was cold and inhospitable

How To Use inhospitable In A Sentence

  • This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
  • Without the greenhouse gases, the world would be a bleak, inhospitable place. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
  • But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.
  • To emphasize the cold, inhospitable emptiness of the West, O'Sullivan had to aim his lens elsewhere than at the roads and bivouacs just out of camera range. Western Development
  • inhospitable mountain areas
  • Plants grow in a wide variety of inhospitable substrates including stone, rock (epilithic), recently decomposed stony soils, or sandy soils. Campos Rupestres montane savanna
  • At this distance, at least, he remains an affecting symbol of human resilience in an inhospitable environment. Times, Sunday Times
  • About three p.m. I arrive at the caravansarai of Ahwan, a dreary, inhospitable place in an equally dreary, inhospitable country. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
  • Moreover, each vehicle had to be capable, during each patrol, of traveling some 2,000 miles over unmapped, inhospitable terrain, and scorching, shifting sands.
  • In between were vast distances of open territory and rugged inhospitable land.
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