Loading..

Loading...

American Dictionary of the English Language

Dictionary Search

Inhospitable


INHOS'PITABLE, adjective [in and hospitable.]

1. Not hospitable; not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously; declining to entertain guests, or entertaining them with reluctance; as an inhospitable person or people.

2. Affording no conveniences, subsistence or shelter to strangers; as inhospitable desserts or rocks.