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Adjective: inhospitable  ,in-hó'spi-tu-bul or in'hós-pi-tu-bul
  1. Unfavourable to life or growth
    "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
     
  2. Not hospitable
    "they are extremely inhospitable these days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable"

See also: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, godforsaken, hostile, stark, uncongenial, unfriendly, waste, water-washed, wild, windswept

Antonym: hospitable

Encyclopedia: Inhospitable

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