Of a place or country: pleasant, agreeable in character. Obsolete.

Of a nation, city, etc.: important, powerful, famous, (and usually also of considerable physical or numerical size). Generally, with common nouns.

Of a place or region: offering no home or shelter; inhospitable; (also) devoid of houses. Cf. houseless, adj. 2b.

designating a country where some aspect of national life is relatively undeveloped; spec. designating one in which economic growth, income per…

Usually depreciative. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a distant or foreign country, language, or people, esp. in Africa or the developing…