inhospitableadjective
uk/ˌɪn.hɒsˈpɪt.ə.bəl/us/ˌɪn.hɑːˈspɪt̬.ə.bəl/inhospitable adjective (PERSON)
not welcoming or generous to people who visit you:
I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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inhospitable adjective (PLACE)
An inhospitable area is not suitable for humans to live in:
They had to trek for miles through inhospitable countryside.
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Living or sleeping somewhere
- abide
- domiciled
- dwell
- exist
- habitable
- live in
- live in sin idiom
- live out
- live-in
- lodge
- occupancy
- residency
- resident
- residential
- room
- root
- settle
- settle down
- squat
- stay
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