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UK
/ɪnhɒspˈɪtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪnhɑˈspɪtəbəɫ, ɪnˈhɑspətəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnhɑˈspɪtəbəɫ, ɪnˈhɑspətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unfavorable to life or growth
inhospitable mountain areas
the barren inhospitable desert -
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.