1 friendly and welcoming to guests or visitors: --
She retired to a more hospitable climate (= a more comfortable place).
a hospitable host
I have never met with a more hospitable people.
The people there are marvellously hospitable and have wonderful manners.
If the uncertainty continues, they will go to countries which are more hospitable to their investments.
People want more, efficient, better, clean and hospitable public transport.
As we confirm in ensuing sections, the resulting rapport between interviewers and informants created conditions hospitable to spontaneous use of the vernacular, enhancing comparability with our contemporary data.
Although the state continued its omnipotent presence in the market, the political and social environment of the market provided a much more hospitable condition for capitalist activities.
Different theories of mind offer different accounts of perception, and of course some of these will be less hospitable to physicalism about color than others. 52.
Most university computer centres are hospitable even to tyros, and significantly the computerese for their support is 'hand-holding', with its overtones of both condescension and caring.