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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hospitable \Hos"pi*ta*ble\, adjective [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.
2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites.
To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hospitable
adjective
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
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