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Inhospitable vs Inhabitable - What's the difference?

inhospitable | inhabitable |

As adjectives the difference between inhospitable and inhabitable

is that inhospitable is not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly while inhabitable is fit to live in; habitable (see inflammable for usage note.

inhospitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly,
  • (of a place) Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.

    • Derived terms

    * inhospitability * inhospitableness * inhospitably

    inhabitable

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fit to live in; habitable (see inflammable for usage note)
  • * John Locke
    • Systems of inhabitable planets.
    Antonyms
    * uninhabitable

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) inhabitable, from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The frozen ridges of the Alps / Or other ground inhabitable .
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