Definition of inhospitable in English:

inhospitable

adjective ɪnˈhɒspɪtəb(ə)lˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəb(ə)l

1(of an environment) harsh and difficult to live in.
（环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的
the inhospitable landscape
难以忍受的自然景观。
Example sentencesExamples
- Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement.
- Many feel it's a memorial to all the hard working men who forged trails through inhospitable blocks of back country.
- Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable.
- He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert.
- It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization.
- So why do so many people with so much wealth live in such an inhospitable climate?
- So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment?
- In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders.
- But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory.
- It is isolated geographically, surrounded by inhospitable landscapes that trap its inhabitants where they are.
- And it's the island's lush, vivid greenery which marks it out from the arid, inhospitable, landscapes of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife.
- Tibetans still form a majority of people living in the inhospitable countryside.
- The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading.
- There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive.
- The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert.
- One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert.
- They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from.
- It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land.
- The exhibition showcases incredible work - done in inhospitable terrain, without laptops, cell phones or machinery.
- This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
Synonyms
uninviting, unwelcoming
bleak, lonely, empty, forbidding, cheerless, hostile, harsh, inimical
uninhabitable, barren, bare, sterile, desolate, austere, severe, stark, spartan
2(of a person) unfriendly and unwelcoming towards people.
（人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的
Example sentencesExamples
- She lived in Toronto for one year and discovered that English Canadians were not the cold, inhospitable lot she had been led to believe they were.
- Nor were its inhabitants ‘a wild and inhospitable people’, of whom it could be said ‘All their habits are the habits of barbarians’.
- He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time.
Synonyms
unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsociable, unsocial, antisocial, unneighbourly, uncongenial, cool, cold, chilly, frosty, glacial, aloof, stand-offish, haughty, disdainful, distant, remote, indifferent, offhand
uncivil, discourteous, ungracious
ungenerous, unkind, unsympathetic, ill-disposed
hostile, inimical, xenophobic

Derivatives

inhospitableness

nounˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəblnəs

With the extent and inhospitableness of its spaces, it was a night of eerie solitude.
Example sentencesExamples
- Flying into Arequipa gives a sense of the inhospitableness of the landscape.

inhospitably

adverb ˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəbli

The breathtaking scenery, which ranges from inhospitably barren to invitingly lush, makes The Motorcycle Diaries a story of the land as much as a story of the two men traveling it.
Example sentencesExamples
- In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the dance of life, an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
- The area has gold, coal, tin, oil, and reindeer, but making a living out of any of them is tough because of inhospitably cold temperatures and high winds.
- As spring turns to summer, the mercury rises drastically in the region, making the deserts that are likely to be the theatre for war, inhospitably hot.
- It was not a ‘garden’ but, instead, an inhospitably extreme environment for most organisms.

inhospitality

noun ɪnˌhɒspɪˈtalɪtiɪnˌhɑspəˈtælədi

mass noun

1The quality of being unfriendly and unwelcoming towards people.
（人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的
pardon my inhospitality, however, it is rather late
Example sentencesExamples
- a town with a reputation of inhospitality to industry and commerce
- Sir, please pardon my inhospitality, however, it is rather late and I am actually not very anxious to see you at the moment.
- Flying high above, the sight of cities gives an impression of the human struggle for survival against the harsh inhospitality of nature.
- ‘The sheer inhospitality of the region means there is very little there, other than desert and mountains,’ he says.
- the inhospitality of this environment, a wet and cold place where nothing grows
2The state of being harsh and difficult to live in.
（环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的

Origin

Late 16th century: French, from in- 'not' + hospitable (see hospitable).

Definition of inhospitable in US English:

inhospitable

adjective

1(of an environment) harsh and difficult to live in.
（环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的
the inhospitable landscape
难以忍受的自然景观。
Example sentencesExamples
- There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive.
- So why do so many people with so much wealth live in such an inhospitable climate?
- And it's the island's lush, vivid greenery which marks it out from the arid, inhospitable, landscapes of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife.
- The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading.
- It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization.
- Many feel it's a memorial to all the hard working men who forged trails through inhospitable blocks of back country.
- One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert.
- So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment?
- This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
- They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from.
- It is isolated geographically, surrounded by inhospitable landscapes that trap its inhabitants where they are.
- Tibetans still form a majority of people living in the inhospitable countryside.
- Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable.
- It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land.
- But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory.
- He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert.
- Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement.
- The exhibition showcases incredible work - done in inhospitable terrain, without laptops, cell phones or machinery.
- The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert.
- In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders.
Synonyms
uninviting, unwelcoming
1. 1.1 (of a person) unfriendly and unwelcoming toward people.
  （人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time.
  She lived in Toronto for one year and discovered that English Canadians were not the cold, inhospitable lot she had been led to believe they were.
  Nor were its inhabitants ‘a wild and inhospitable people’, of whom it could be said ‘All their habits are the habits of barbarians’.
  Synonyms
  unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsociable, unsocial, antisocial, unneighbourly, uncongenial, cool, cold, chilly, frosty, glacial, aloof, stand-offish, haughty, disdainful, distant, remote, indifferent, offhand

Origin

Late 16th century: French, from in- ‘not’ + hospitable (see hospitable).

单词	inhospitable
释义	Definition of inhospitable in English: inhospitable adjective ɪnˈhɒspɪtəb(ə)lˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəb(ə)l 1(of an environment) harsh and difficult to live in. （环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的 the inhospitable landscape 难以忍受的自然景观。 Example sentencesExamples Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement. Many feel it's a memorial to all the hard working men who forged trails through inhospitable blocks of back country. Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable. He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert. It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization. So why do so many people with so much wealth live in such an inhospitable climate? So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment? In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders. But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory. It is isolated geographically, surrounded by inhospitable landscapes that trap its inhabitants where they are. And it's the island's lush, vivid greenery which marks it out from the arid, inhospitable, landscapes of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife. Tibetans still form a majority of people living in the inhospitable countryside. The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading. There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive. The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert. One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert. They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from. It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land. The exhibition showcases incredible work - done in inhospitable terrain, without laptops, cell phones or machinery. This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline. Synonyms uninviting, unwelcoming bleak, lonely, empty, forbidding, cheerless, hostile, harsh, inimical uninhabitable, barren, bare, sterile, desolate, austere, severe, stark, spartan 2(of a person) unfriendly and unwelcoming towards people. （人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的 Example sentencesExamples She lived in Toronto for one year and discovered that English Canadians were not the cold, inhospitable lot she had been led to believe they were. Nor were its inhabitants ‘a wild and inhospitable people’, of whom it could be said ‘All their habits are the habits of barbarians’. He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time. Synonyms unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsociable, unsocial, antisocial, unneighbourly, uncongenial, cool, cold, chilly, frosty, glacial, aloof, stand-offish, haughty, disdainful, distant, remote, indifferent, offhand uncivil, discourteous, ungracious ungenerous, unkind, unsympathetic, ill-disposed hostile, inimical, xenophobic Derivatives inhospitableness nounˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəblnəs With the extent and inhospitableness of its spaces, it was a night of eerie solitude. Example sentencesExamples Flying into Arequipa gives a sense of the inhospitableness of the landscape. inhospitably adverb ˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəbli The breathtaking scenery, which ranges from inhospitably barren to invitingly lush, makes The Motorcycle Diaries a story of the land as much as a story of the two men traveling it. Example sentencesExamples In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the dance of life, an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. The area has gold, coal, tin, oil, and reindeer, but making a living out of any of them is tough because of inhospitably cold temperatures and high winds. As spring turns to summer, the mercury rises drastically in the region, making the deserts that are likely to be the theatre for war, inhospitably hot. It was not a ‘garden’ but, instead, an inhospitably extreme environment for most organisms. inhospitality noun ɪnˌhɒspɪˈtalɪtiɪnˌhɑspəˈtælədi mass noun 1The quality of being unfriendly and unwelcoming towards people. （人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的 pardon my inhospitality, however, it is rather late Example sentencesExamples a town with a reputation of inhospitality to industry and commerce Sir, please pardon my inhospitality, however, it is rather late and I am actually not very anxious to see you at the moment. Flying high above, the sight of cities gives an impression of the human struggle for survival against the harsh inhospitality of nature. ‘The sheer inhospitality of the region means there is very little there, other than desert and mountains,’ he says. the inhospitality of this environment, a wet and cold place where nothing grows 2The state of being harsh and difficult to live in. （环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的 Origin Late 16th century: French, from in- 'not' + hospitable (see hospitable). Definition of inhospitable in US English: inhospitable adjective 1(of an environment) harsh and difficult to live in. （环境）艰苦的，不宜居住的 the inhospitable landscape 难以忍受的自然景观。 Example sentencesExamples There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive. So why do so many people with so much wealth live in such an inhospitable climate? And it's the island's lush, vivid greenery which marks it out from the arid, inhospitable, landscapes of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife. The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading. It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization. Many feel it's a memorial to all the hard working men who forged trails through inhospitable blocks of back country. One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert. So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment? This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline. They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from. It is isolated geographically, surrounded by inhospitable landscapes that trap its inhabitants where they are. Tibetans still form a majority of people living in the inhospitable countryside. Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable. It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land. But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory. He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert. Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement. The exhibition showcases incredible work - done in inhospitable terrain, without laptops, cell phones or machinery. The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert. In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders. Synonyms uninviting, unwelcoming 1.1 (of a person) unfriendly and unwelcoming toward people. （人）不友好的，冷淡的，不好客的，不殷勤的 Example sentencesExamples He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time. She lived in Toronto for one year and discovered that English Canadians were not the cold, inhospitable lot she had been led to believe they were. Nor were its inhabitants ‘a wild and inhospitable people’, of whom it could be said ‘All their habits are the habits of barbarians’. Synonyms unwelcoming, unfriendly, unsociable, unsocial, antisocial, unneighbourly, uncongenial, cool, cold, chilly, frosty, glacial, aloof, stand-offish, haughty, disdainful, distant, remote, indifferent, offhand Origin Late 16th century: French, from in- ‘not’ + hospitable (see hospitable).
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