inhospitality

1. 1.

   unkind and inconsiderate welcome

   “he was taken aback by such inhospitality”

   Antonymshospitality

   Broaderwelcome

Other forms of inhospitality

plural

inhospitalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inhospitality

What does inhospitality mean?

inhospitality means "unkind and inconsiderate welcome".

How many syllables are in inhospitality?

inhospitality has 6 syllables: in-ho-spi-ta-li-ty. The stress falls on "ta".

What is the opposite of inhospitality?

The recorded antonyms are hospitality.

Is inhospitality a common word?

inhospitality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.