| 单词 | hospitable |
| 释义 | hospitable (once / 240 pages) adj When someone makes you feel comfortable and at home, that person is being hospitable, providing a warm, friendly environment. Anything hospitable is welcoming and open. A Greek proverb suggested that in being hospitable, the main feeling should be good will. The basis for the word hospitable is the Latin hospes, which refers to welcoming a guest, a word that evolved into meaning "to entertain." Consider that being hospitable means, as someone once said, “making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were.” In other words, entertaining them. (You can also “entertain” new ideas with an open, hospitable mind.) WORD FAMILYhospitable: hospitableness, hospitabler, hospitably, hospitality, inhospitable+/hospitality: hospitalities/inhospitable: inhospitableness, inhospitably, inhospitality/inhospitality: inhospitalities USAGE EXAMPLESSo how do astronomers decide whether a planet is hospitable to life? BBC(Dec 25, 2016) Among the most hospitable of all was the UK, which welcomed 429 former detainees. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) "Being aggressive in showing that there's a climate and environment that's hospitable to business is a good thing," he said. Washington Post(Dec 05, 2016) 1adj disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity a good-natured and hospitable man a hospitable act hospitable invitations Syn|Ant friendly characteristic of or befitting a friend welcomingvery cordial inhospitable not hospitable unfriendlynot disposed to friendship or friendliness 2adj favorable to life and growth soil sufficiently hospitable for forest growth a hospitable environment Syn|Ant genial, kind agreeable, conducive to comfort inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkproviding no shelter or sustenance godforsaken, waste, wildlocated in a dismal or remote area; desolate hostile, uncongenial, unfriendlyvery unfavorable to life or growth water-washedwashed or swept with water especially waves of the sea windsweptopen to or swept by wind 3adj having an open mind hospitable to new ideas Syn open, receptive ready or willing to receive favorably |
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