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# inhospitable

«inhospitable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (inhospitable, more inhospitable)

### meaning for a pupil

Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhospitable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a strange, cold or dangerous land where travellers arrive and find no help

### examples

- The island was cold and inhospitable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhospitable/#x1)
- The owner shut the door on the travellers, a rude and inhospitable act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhospitable/#x2)
- The strangers feared the inhospitable shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhospitable/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inhospitable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhospitable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.