<adj.all> the barren inhospitable desert inhospitable mountain areas
not hospitable
<adj.all> they are extremely inhospitable these days her greeting was cold and inhospitable
Inhospitable \In*hos"pi*ta*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + hospitable: cf. L. inhospitalis.] 1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door? --Cowper.
2. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. ``Inhospitable wastes.'' --Blair. -- {In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*hos"pi*ta*bly}, adv.
The hills cover 5,200 square miles of inhospitable land bordering Burma and the northeastern Indian states of Tripura and Mizoram.
A rekindled dispute over specks of inhospitable rock in the East China Sea is feeding anti-Japanese sentiment in quarters already fearful that Tokyo is drifting away from pacifism.
If the outside world becomes totally inhospitable, we can always live in pressurised plastic bubbles. This is a recipe for ruin.
"I feel subhuman or something." Unfortunately for Ms. Cassady and her fellow smokers, airports also are becoming more inhospitable to smokers.
We flourished during the civil wars of the sixties and endured the interminable seventies, only to find that the eighties began as a harsh and inhospitable decade for us."
"These companies are going" somewhere anyhow, he says. "Southern California, which has been our primary market, is an inhospitable place to manufacture.
But Mr. Heller's move comes at an inhospitable time for hardware start-ups; capital costs are high, and the market for computers is saturated by existing makers.
That would be inhospitable." Although neighbors are reluctant to take people to Zhao, visitors have little trouble finding him.
From the start, wealth and deprivation have coexisted in these inhospitable surroundings.
The measure to legalize the practice was approved by a 53-20 House vote after supporters argued that it would keep drunken drivers off the road and that defeat would hurt tourism by bolstering outsiders' beliefs that Utah is an inhospitable place.
END INDICTMENT TEXT _ 2 Takes Chicagoans danced a winter ballet Thursday amid inhospitable weather that made the hardiest Midwesterners leap to avoid slush puddles, shuffle to keep from slipping on ice and dive to escape bus splashes.