livable
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈlɪvəbl/
- US
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habitable
- Did I mention Adelaide is one of the most livable cities in the world?
- livable wage
- livable developments
- more livable
I see that challenge as one in which working people don't have a livable wage to afford food.
- I see that challenge as one in which working people don't have a livable wage to afford food.
- In Denmark and in other Scandinavian countries, people are paid a livable wage, They receive healthcare.
- Shouldn't the government provide a livable wage?
- It was extremely livable because a lot of Parisians left town.
- So I'm trying to just give you an assortment of things that made my life a little bit more livable this year.
- It's a huge country and still under populated relative to the amount of arable land and livable countryside and so on and so forth.
- So in the end, we just decided to buy a house, which is totally livable, but that we can like make our own.
- The caster seeds that are from this product are sourced from certified farm in India, which means all of the workers are living on livable wages.
- It came with two windows and obviously the ceilings are the ceilings, but to make it more livable, what we're going to do is we are going to add vaulted ceilings.
- And now it's more about this, how livable is this or how you know, how well can you work in that weird bubble?
- Who cares that that place is, like, gross in too many ways to make it livable anyway.
- Like these things make difficult things liveable with.
Examples
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Well, after the show, we helped Christy and Ernest work with the cleaning company Address Our Mess to get their house in a livable condition for their family.
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They took the opportunity to make it livable.
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With work, we could make it livable again.
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I wanted to make it a livable place for my family... my two little girls.
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We can make it livable, and it's only 10 miles from here.
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We would like to live in a livable and sustainable environment.
Academic text (2010) -
We're living with friends until the house is livable again, and it's stressful to be so displaced.
Blog text (1) -
Rather, they produce a healthier, safer, cleaner, and more livable environment.
Academic text (1993) -
New York and Chicago typify municipal government efforts to make cities more livable.
Academic text (2002) -
Despite its challenges, the abandoned house can be transformed into a livable space with some renovations.
Synonyms
34
4.6
A place that people can live in, like a house or planet
3
3.9
Fit for people to live in
Antonyms
How Livable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word livable comes from the word live ('to have life') and the ending -able ('can be'), so it simply means 'can be lived in'. That's why livable describes a place or condition that is fit and suitable for living.