hospitality, n. friendliness, neighborliness, amicability, congeniality, Ger. Gemiitlichkeit, conviviality, sociability; easiness, openness, approachability, receptiveness; welcomeness, warmth, warmheartedness, kindheartedness, kindliness, benignancy; graciousness, geniality, politeness, cordiality, courteousness; generosity, open-handedness, benevolence.
host1, 1. hostess, party-giver, party-thrower, inviter, treater; entertainer, emcee, M.C., master or mistress of ceremonies.
2. innkeeper, hotelkeeper, hotelman, boniface, hosteler, Fr. hotelier; landlord, landlady, manager, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, master, mistress.
host2, n. multitude, lot, crowd, throng, crush, mess, horde, mob, rabble; drove, bevy, herd, pack, flock, swarm, gaggle, school, shoal; army, legion, tribe, band, troop, company, group, body, assemblage, assembly, congregation, aggregation, array.
hostage, n. pawn, gage, prisoner; security, surety, leverage.
hostel, n. hostelry, hospice, youth hostel, youth hotel, caravansary, khan; inn, motor lodge, motel, hotel, tourist or guest home, pension, boarding house, lodging, lodgment, shelter, resting place.
hostile, adj. 1. antagonistic, opposed, adverse, averse, contrary, oppugnant; anti, against, Sl. agin, down on; inimical, unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious.
2. aggressive, warlike, belligerent, bellicose; combative, contentious, militant, warring, fighting; bickering, quarreling, wrangling, clashing; discordant, fractious, factious.
3. unfriendly, unkind, unsympathetic, inhospitable, cold, unsociable; malicious, mean, ugly, malevolent.
hostility, n. 1. antagonism, animus, ill will, ill feeling, grudge, spite, contempt; enmity, hatred, hate, dislike, disaffection, odium; malevolence, maliciousness, malice, meanness; bitterness, anger, wrath, dudgeon, rancor; rankling, bad blood, contumely.
2. unfriendliness, unkindness, unneighborliness, inhospitableness, unsociableness; inimicality, unfavorableness, unpropitiousness.
3. opposition, contraposition, contradiction, clash, antipathy, oppugnancy; resistance, unwillingness, contrariness, contrariety, recalcitrance.
4. hostilities war, warfare, fighting, conflict, militancy; contention, strife, aggression; state of war, state of siege; battles, sieges, raids, bloodshed, struggles, action.
hot, adj. 1. heated, warm, calescent; fiery, piping hot, red hot; burning, flaming, blazing, scorching, roasting, searing; toasting, baking, ovenlike; scalding, boiling, sizzling, simmering, steaming; torrid, sultry, parching, sweltry, sweltering, blistering.
2. feverish, febrile, flushed, feverous, fevered, red; pyretic, hectic, Med. pyrexic, malarial, Pathol, calen-tural.
3. peppery, spicy, sharp, piquant, curried; pungent, biting, tart, strong, astringent, burning.
4. ardent, fervent, fervid, zealous, enthusiastic; vehement, passionate, impetuous, spirited; excited, animated, agitated, inflamed, impassioned, kindled; angry, furious, irate, enraged, infuriated; wrathful, splenetic, choleric, hot-tempered; seething, raging, fuming.
5. eager, avid, keen, assiduous, earnest, sedulous; anxious, intent, Sl. gung-ho, desirous; enterprising, industrious, hustling.
6. lustful, lascivious, salacious, lecherous, libidinous, lubricious, Archaic, lickerish; animalistic, bestial, carnal, sensual, voluptuous, goatish; prurient, wanton, concupiscent, ruttish; priapic, randy, Sl.