Thesaurus / inhospitable
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These inhospitable conditions led to the extinction of 76 percent of Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs.
AN ASTEROID DIDN’T KILL THE DINOSAURS BY ITSELF. EARTH HELPED.KATE BAGGALEYSEPTEMBER 30, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThis can make the soil inhospitable to native plants and tree seedlings and far more likely to erode.
INVASIVE JUMPING WORMS DAMAGE U.S. SOIL AND THREATEN FORESTSMEGAN SEVERSEPTEMBER 29, 2020SCIENCE NEWSSome scientists contend that life on our planet arose in such seemingly inhospitable conditions.
LIFE ON EARTH MAY HAVE BEGUN IN HOSTILE HOT SPRINGSJACK J. LEESEPTEMBER 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThough Venus is pretty inhospitable today, “Earth and Venus likely had very similar starting conditions, and recent work has shown that Venus may have been habitable, with surface liquid water oceans, as recently as a billion years ago,” he says.
GAS SPOTTED IN VENUS’S CLOUDS COULD BE A SIGN OF ALIEN LIFENEEL PATELSEPTEMBER 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWApple was eager to arrive in India, but the country has been a somewhat inhospitable host.
APPLE’S IPHONE SALES HAVE LAGGED IN INDIA FOR YEARS. IT’S ONLY NOW UNLEASHING ITS BRANDING FIREPOWERGRADY MCGREGORSEPTEMBER 6, 2020FORTUNEThey both consist of naked, inhospitable masses of rock, and serve at most as resting places for a few gulls.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERIt came out of unknown and inhospitable mystery, and went into a mystery equally unknown and inhospitable.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTIt is in the northern sea, near the inhospitable Gulf of Stavanger, and in the 59th degree of latitude.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOThe summits of the higher ones were constantly swept by the flakes of foam, and promised nothing but an inhospitable drenching.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOMackenzie had a bruised and heavy feeling about him as he shouldered his pack and hurried from that inhospitable door.
THE FLOCKMASTER OF POISON CREEKGEORGE W. OGDENWORDS RELATED TO INHOSPITABLE
- aloof
- antagonistic
- brooding
- cold
- cool
- distant
- easy-going
- hostile
- inaccessible
- inhospitable
- introverted
- laid-back
- nongregarious
- recessive
- reclusive
- reserved
- retiring
- secretive
- sensitive
- shy
- standoffish
- stuck-up
- timid
- unapproachable
- unbending
- uncommunicative
- uncongenial
- unforthcoming
- unneighborly
- unsocial
- uppity
- withdrawn
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.