welcome
interjection
(a word of kindly greeting, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure).
unwelcoming
-
a word derived from
welcome.
Example Sentences
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It can be reclusive and even unwelcoming, but it can’t attack its neighbors, blockade international waters, or export extremism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
But for students like Lucy—and for Jack and Harper, who’d already felt unsafe long before the shooting—those gestures couldn’t reach the part of campus that still felt unwelcoming.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
But at a local community hub Ian Gillies was concerned about the saltires, which he regarded as unwelcoming and divisive.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
“Losing a parent is extremely tough. Losing both in the way I have has given me an incredibly unwelcoming feeling and a paranoia that I will have to overcome,” he wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
But at two weeks this one had yet to discover how unwelcoming was its world: we would need a place for them far removed from other houses.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
