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inhabitable

inhabitable

3 3.9
Fit for people to live in
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈhæbɪtəbl/
translation icon : habitable
  • After several modifications, the researchers confirmed that the structure was now inhabitable.
  • inhabitable planet
  • inhabitable world
  • inhabitable place

I mean, we have a, we, we're having trouble enough keeping the inhabitable planet, you know, habitable.

Examples

  • Having been in Colorado over the last weekend as the fires and the heat wave abated, my daughter and I discussed the fact that Colorado just might be inhabitable a few years down the road.

    Blog text (27)
  • It's the only place outside the faction zones that may still be inhabitable.

  • The owners have taken a hit as well; the apartments are no longer inhabitable.

    Blog text (30)
  • Few inhabitable worlds are void of the signs of prior civilization.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And so the question was, were the tropics in fact inhabitable for Europeans?

  • These stabilizing influences have kept the surface of the Earth inhabitable for the last 3.8 billion years.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Unfortunately, if we don't fix it, we're going to need to search the universe for new inhabitable planets a whole lot sooner than we thought.

    Blog text (18)
  • Even in protected areas, for many frogs and salamanders, the inhabitable world is shrinking to nothing.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Scientists are searching for planets that are inhabitable to support human life.

  • The housing project was built in an inhabitable area close to nature.

Synonyms

habitable
vsinhabitable
34 4.6

A place that people can live in, like a house or planet

is the same meaning phrased differently
livable
vsinhabitable
  • US
26 3.4

Fit to live in and comfortable enough for daily life

is a neutral suitability for living rather than stressing adequacy
hospitable
vsinhabitable
11 4.4

Providing conditions that allow life or growth

is restricted to being fit to live in rather than offering broad favorable conditions
occupiable
vsinhabitable
4.6

Safe and ready for people to live or work in

is only about being fit to live in not about general use
settleable
vsinhabitable
6.3

Suitable for people to live in

is about general suitability to live rather than availability for people to move there

Antonyms

18 6.1

Not safe or suitable for people to live in

How Habitable

luxurious
62 5.6
comfortable
494 1.0
livable
  • US
26 3.4
inhabitable
3 3.9
uninhabitable
18 6.1

Surface Forms

inhabitable positive
uninhabitable positive

Morphology

inhabitable = inhabit (transparent) = inhabit + able

Formed by the verb 'inhabit' + the productive adjectival suffix '-able', so the meaning 'able to be lived in' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Inhabitable comes from the verb inhabit, whose root habit- (from Latin habitare) means 'to live' or 'dwell', and the ending -able means 'able'. So inhabitable literally means 'able to be lived in', and you can see the same root in habitat, a place where people or animals live.