Hostile vs Untravellable - What's the difference?
hostile | untravellable |
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly
Unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of being journeyed over or upon.
* 1793 , William Marshall, Rural Economy of the Midland Counties , Dublin,
* 1848 , , Letters of Edward Lear (2008 edition), ISBN 9781408683163,
* 1855 , , vol. 11, "
Unable to travel.
* 1890 , The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 , vol. 10,
As adjectives the difference between hostile and untravellable
is that hostile is belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly while untravellable is unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of being journeyed over or upon.As a noun hostile
is an enemy.hostile
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a hostile force
- hostile intentions
- a hostile country
- hostile to a sudden change
Synonyms
* antagonistic * hatefulAntonyms
* friendlyAnagrams
* * ----untravellable
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Alternative forms
* untravelableAdjective
(-)p. 43:
- By encreasing the hollowness of a wide carriage road, much beyond the utility of form, the margins might no doubt be brought into a travellable state; whereas, of a flat road, in a wet season, every part, from side to side becomes equally untravellable .
p. 8:
- Greece however is in a very untravellable state just now.
Petition Extraordinary":
- [I]n this parish—without rectory, without school, without rector, with a pauper population, and untravellable roads—your petitioner spent upwards of seven months.
p. 337:
- . . . the defendant to have the right to reject 1000 sheep from the number mustered, which were to include lame or untravellable sheep.