Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inhospitable.
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- noun The quality of being
inhospitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition
- noun the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their choices include nations that have swarms of malaria-infested mosquitoes, bad TV, deadly climates, decapitation issues, French people, bland food and other signs of inhospitableness.
Driving the Rich Into the Sea Scott Adams 2011
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As Jude worried through the logistics of releasing the dead-zone coordinates to the mechs without revealing them to BioMax—though the whole beauty of the location was its inhospitableness to orgs, making secrecy a bonus rather than a necessity—I watched the door, half expecting Zo to burst through with a last word.
Wired Robin Wasserman 2010
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The sin of Sodom wasn't anal sex or homosexuality, it was inhospitableness and rape.
THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! Hal Duncan 2008
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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The inhospitableness of the globe was clearly illustrated by incredible bodies of water, thick masses of moist air; and tropical vegetation.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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The inhospitableness of the globe was clearly illustrated by incredible bodies of water, thick masses of moist air; and tropical vegetation.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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