Word Meanings - INHOSPITABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: INHOSPITABLE

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*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INHOSPITABLE)

• Churlish
• Illiberal
• niggardly
• inhospitable
• unsociable
• unneighborly

Related words: (words related to INHOSPITABLE)

• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INHOSPITABLE
  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;
• NIGGARDLY
  Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;
• UNSOCIABLE
  Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper. -- Un*so"cia*ble*ness, n. -- Un*so"cia*bly, adv.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• UNNEIGHBORLY
  Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv.
• ILLIBERAL
  1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. 3. Not well authorized or elegant;
• CHURLISHLY
  In a churlish manner.
• CHURLISHNESS
  Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
• CHURLISH
  1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish
• ILLIBERALIZE
  To make illiberal.
• ILLIBERALITY
  The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.