Hospitable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. --Shak.
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     2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to
        guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites.
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              To where you taper cheers the vale
              With hospitable ray.                  --Goldsmith.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hospitable
       adj 1: favorable to life and growth; "soil sufficiently hospitable
              for forest growth"; "a hospitable environment" [ant: {inhospitable}]
       2: disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and
          generosity; "a good-natured and hospitable man"; "a
          hospitable act"; "hospitable invitations" [ant: {inhospitable}]
       3: (`hospitable' is usually followed by `to') having an open
          mind; "hospitable to new ideas"; "open to suggestions"
          [syn: {open to(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "hospitable":
     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