habitable

[ hab-i-tuh-buh l ]

/ ˈhæb ɪ tə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being inhabited.

Origin of habitable

1350–1400; Middle English habitābilis, equivalent to habitā(re) to inhabit (see habitat) + -bilis -ble; replacing Middle English abitable < Middle French

OTHER WORDS FROM habitable

hab·it·a·bil·i·ty, hab·it·a·ble·ness, noun hab·it·a·bly, adverb non·hab·it·a·bil·i·ty, noun non·hab·it·a·ble, adjective

non·hab·it·a·ble·ness, noun non·hab·it·a·bly, adverb un·hab·it·a·ble, adjective un·hab·it·a·ble·ness, noun un·hab·it·a·bly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH habitable

habitable inhabitable uninhabitable

Words nearby habitable

habima, habiru, habit, habit spasm, habit-forming, habitable, habitan, habitancy, habitant, habitat, habitation

Example sentences from the Web for habitable

Although Escobar's Cathedral was still incomplete, it was habitable.

Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens |Jeff Campagna |June 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In our Solar System, only smaller, rocky planets orbit within the habitable zone.

Could ‘Star Wars’ Be Right About Habitable Moons? |Matthew R. Francis |May 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Imagine, though, a Saturn-mass exoplanet with a Titan-sized moon orbiting its star within the habitable zone.

Could ‘Star Wars’ Be Right About Habitable Moons? |Matthew R. Francis |May 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
So, for us to know if Kepler-186f is habitable or not, we have to consider several “ifs”.

What Does the Discovery of “Another Earth” Mean for Us? |Matthew R. Francis |April 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Venus orbits the Sun within the habitable zone, and is only slightly smaller than Earth.

What Does the Discovery of “Another Earth” Mean for Us? |Matthew R. Francis |April 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The windows are mostly double, and the houses, all of one story, are warm enough to be habitable.

In Search of a Siberian Klondike |Homer B. Hulbert
My object on board your barge was to take a passage to some habitable region, where I could obtain food, rest, and shelter.

Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin |William H. G. Kingston
A seventh, the Capsterre, required only water to make it habitable, the land being very fertile.

The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) |Walter Thornbury
He had literally never before seen what looked like habitable territory of such vast extent, with no houses on it.

Operation: Outer Space |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
In three years it is a sum more than equal to the supply of a Bible to every family on the habitable globe.

Select Temperance Tracts |American Tract Society

British Dictionary definitions for habitable

habitable

/ (ˈhæbɪtəbəl) /

adjective

able to be lived in

Derived forms of habitable

habitability or habitableness, noun habitably, adverb

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