All 5 Uses of
hospitable
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'What the devil is the matter?' he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure, after this inhospitable treatment.†
Chpt 1inhospitable = unwelcomingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I ejaculated, mentally, 'you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.†
Chpt 2 *inhospitality = unwelcomingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitality means not and reverses the meaning of hospitality. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.†
Chpt 3hospitable = welcoming
- You'll not be surprised, Ellen, at my feeling particularly cheerless, seated in worse than solitude on that inhospitable hearth, and remembering that four miles distant lay my delightful home, containing the only people I loved on earth; and there might as well be the Atlantic to part us, instead of those four miles: I could not overpass them!†
Chpt 13inhospitable = unwelcomingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- We reached the threshold; Catherine walked in, and I stood waiting till she had conducted the invalid to a chair, expecting her out immediately; when Mr. Heathcliff, pushing me forward, exclaimed — 'My house is not stricken with the plague, Nelly; and I have a mind to be hospitable to-day: sit down, and allow me to shut the door.'†
Chpt 27hospitable = welcoming
Definition:
welcoming
in various senses, including:
- inclined to treat guests well -- as in "She is good-natured and hospitable."
- favorable to life and growth -- as in "The climate is hospitable to roses."
- open to new ideas or change -- as in "The organization is hospitable to new ideas."