## Meanings
1. Friendly and generous toward guests and visitors.
2. Providing good conditions for life or growth.
3. Open and willing to consider new ideas.

## Examples
- Our hosts were warm and hospitable throughout our stay.
- The desert is not a hospitable place for most plants.
- The committee was hospitable to new suggestions.

## Synonyms
- habitable
- inhabitable
- livable
- tenantable

## Antonyms
- uninhabitable

## Derived Forms
- hospitableness
- hospitably
- unhospitable

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hospitable
- Root: hospitare

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).

## AI Etymology
Hospitable is borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “Friendly and generous toward guests and visitors” and “Providing good conditions for life or growth”.

## Topics
- Describing People

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