All 11 Uses
hospitable
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Three Cups of Tea
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- This part of northern Pakistan was so remote and inhospitable that we'd had to have friends preposition barrels of aviation fuel at strategic sites by jeep.†
Chpt Intr.inhospitable = 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.
- Mouzafer was a Balti, the mountain people who populated the least hospitable high-altitude valleys in northern Pakistan.†
Chpt 2 *hospitable = welcoming
- They waited half of each year, in rooms choked with smoke from yak dung fires, for the weather to become hospitable enough for them to return outdoors.†
Chpt 9
- Or was it a hospitable gesture, the only English reading material his hosts had on hand?†
Chpt 13
- He had no need to make a hospitable impression anymore, and a cigarette wasn't the last taste he wanted to have in his mouth.†
Chpt 13
- On the drive to his hotel, Mortenson related the details of his recent detention in Waziristan, and Suleman, enraged that his countrymen had put a guest through such an inhospitable ordeal, had turned as protective as a mother hen.†
Chpt 15inhospitable = 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.
- Apo Razak, a veteran at feeding large groups in inhospitable places, worked as the head cook.†
Chpt 15
- And to both sides, the line drawn over inhospitable glaciers at the behest of Britain's Lord Mountbatten remained a raw wound reminding them of their colonial humiliations.†
Chpt 17
- In 1971, after decades of skirmishing, both nations agreed to a Line of Control (LOC), drawn across terrain so rugged and inhospitable that it already formed an effective barrier to military incursion.†
Chpt 17
- If there was one constant in Baltistan, it was the jester-like leer on the face of the old expedition cook who had spent his life providing food and comfort for large groups in inhospitable places.†
Chpt 17
- Back in the inhospitable hallway again, walking toward a room where Mortenson was scheduled to brief top military planners, he wondered how the distance that he felt in the Pentagon affected the decisions made in the building.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(hospitable) welcoming or supportivein 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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)