uninhabitable
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbl/
:
inhabitable
- Plus, radioactive fallout would make the area uninhabitable for who knows how long.
- rendered uninhabitable
- become uninhabitable
So that's like a third of the country rendered uninhabitable.
- So that's like a third of the country rendered uninhabitable.
- And your professional opinion, what is the most likely cause for Earth to become uninhabitable?
- There are, for example, lots of little islands in the Irish Sea that seem to be uninhabitable.
- There was that aspect and there was a second aspect and the second aspect is to make Gaza unlivable, uninhabitable.
Examples
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The climate crisis is making certain regions uninhabitable as temperatures rise and water sources dry up.
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Tsetse makes large areas of tropical Africa uninhabitable by cattle and hostile to humans.
Academic text (1999) -
Large areas will become uninhabitable for a long, long time.
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The North Wing is entirely uninhabitable.
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If it goes off near land... the whole Southern California coast will be uninhabitable... for the next 20,000 years.
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"Without the swamp," said Munishi, "the region would be virtually uninhabitable."
Academic text (2011) -
When the flood receded, the family returned to discover their home a sodden, uninhabitable mess.
Academic text (1993) -
Erosion undermines waterfront houses, offices, and public facilities, eventually rendering them uninhabitable or unusable.
Academic text (2000) -
Rising sea levels, melting ice, deteriorating permafrost, and increasingly violent storms were rendering their village uninhabitable.
Academic text (2006) -
I understand that a reactor catastrophe can kill a minimum of 50,000 people, injure another 1 to 500,000, and render uninhabitable a land mass the size of Delaware.
Synonyms
14
7.0
Not welcoming and difficult to live in or visit
5
4.2
Not suitable for most living things because it is very harsh
4
5.0
Too dangerous or damaged to live in
1
6.7
Not able to live or grow under normal conditions
1
6.9
Dirty and likely to cause disease
A place that makes people likely to get sick
Antonyms
How Habitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
uninhabitable = inhabitable (transparent) = un + inhabit + able
Formed by adding the negating prefix 'un-' to 'inhabitable' (inhabit + -able), so the meaning 'not suitable to live in' is directly derived.
Etymology
The word uninhabitable combines the prefix un- ('not') with inhabit ('to live in'), and you can see the same root in habitat, a place where people live. So, uninhabitable means a place that is 'not suitable' or 'not safe' to live in.