hospitable

hospitable
Synonyms and related words:
admissible, admissive, admissory, affable, agreeable, amenable, amiable, amicable, approachable, ardent, assuring, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, cheering, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, comforting, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, condolatory, condolent, condoling, congenial, consolatory, consoling, convivial, cooperative, cordial, courteous, encouraging, fit for society, fond of society, free, freehanded, freehearted, friendly, generous, genial, giving, gracious, greathearted, gregarious, handsome, heartening, hearty, imbibitory, ingestive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, neighborly, of good comfort, open, open-minded, openhanded, openhearted, princely, profuse, reassuring, receivable, receptible, receptive, recipient, relieving, sociable, social, social-minded, stintless, supportive, sympathetic, tolerant, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, urbane, warm, warmhearted, welcoming

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  • Hospitable — Hos pi*ta*ble, a. [Cf. OF. hospitable, LL. hospitare to receive as a guest. See {Host} a landlord.] 1. Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hospitable — [häs′pit ə bəl, häs pit′ə bəl] adj. [MFr < ML hospitabilis < hospitare, to receive as a guest < hospes: see HOSPICE] 1. a) friendly, kind, and solicitous toward guests b) prompted by or associated with friendliness and solicitude toward… …   English World dictionary

  • hospitable — 1560s, from M.Fr. hospitable, from L. hospitari be a guest, from hospes (gen. hospitis) guest (see HOST (Cf. host) (1)). Related: Hospitably …   Etymology dictionary

  • hospitable — index benevolent, humane, liberal (generous), philanthropic, receptive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hospitable — *social, gregarious, convivial, cooperative, companionable Analogous words: sociable, *gracious, cordial, genial, affable: generous, *liberal, bountiful, bounteous, openhanded: friendly, neighborly, *amicable Antonyms: inhospitable Contrasted… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hospitable — should be pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, although second syllable stress is common …   Modern English usage

  • hospitable — [adj] sociable, accommodating accessible, amenable, amicable, bountiful, charitable, companionable, convivial, cooperative, cordial, courteous, friendly, generous, genial, gracious, gregarious, kind, liberal, magnanimous, neighborly, obliging,… …   New thesaurus

  • hospitable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) showing or inclined to show hospitality. 2) (of an environment) pleasant and favourable for living in. DERIVATIVES hospitably adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • hospitable — [[t]hɒspɪ̱təb(ə)l, hɒ̱spɪt [/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A hospitable person is friendly, generous, and welcoming to guests or people they have just met. The locals are hospitable and welcoming... He was very hospitable to me when I came to New York. Ant:… …   English dictionary

  • hospitable — hospitableness, n. hospitably, adv. /hos pi teuh beuhl, ho spit euh beuhl/, adj. 1. receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family. 2. characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or… …   Universalium

  • hospitable — /hɒsˈpɪtəbəl / (say hos pituhbuhl) adjective 1. affording a generous welcome to guests or strangers: a hospitable city. 2. inclined to or characterised by hospitality: a hospitable reception. –phrase 3. hospitable to, favourably receptive or open …  

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