inhospitable

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INHOS'PITABLE, adjective [in and hospitable.] 1. Not hospitable; not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously; declining to entertain guests, or entertaining them with reluctance; as an inhospitable person or people. 2. Affording no conveniences, subsistence or shelter to strangers; as inhospitable desserts or rocks.
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