Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being inhabited, or of affording habitation; suitable for habitation; habitable.
- Not habitable; uninhabitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being inhabited; habitable.
- adjective obsolete Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
habitable ; not suitable to be inhabited. - adjective
fit tolive in;habitable (seeinflammable for usage note)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fit for habitation
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a missile makes a hole in the building's wall, but the basement and one room are intact - is this called inhabitable or not? alan_tskhurbaev:
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The ongoing concerns have prompted Northwestern to create an emergency back-up schedule, in case one of its aging buildings would become "inhabitable," Orr said.
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No damning artwork to highlight the world's love of oil, rather an attempt to get officials from Perth and Kinross Council to repair his "inhabitable" house.
British Blogs 2009
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Now, the chemical that made Florida inhabitable and eliminated malaria from Central America is not used to save a million lives a year in Africa because of false liberal fears masquerading as science.
Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming 2010
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Now, the chemical that made Florida inhabitable and eliminated malaria from Central America is not used to save a million lives a year in Africa because of false liberal fears masquerading as science.
Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming 2010
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The channels seem inhabitable if not for the threadbare mattresses and some out-of-place artwork on the walls.
Las Vegas Author Matt O'Brien Exposes Plight Of Underground Homeless The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The channels seem inhabitable if not for the threadbare mattresses and some out-of-place artwork on the walls.
Las Vegas Author Matt O'Brien Exposes Plight Of Underground Homeless The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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We can always move to another planet if this one becomes inhabitable.
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Okay I know - Africa is not suppose to be seen as an inhabitable place by westerners.
Obama urges 'strong, sustainable' governments in Africa 2009
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Now, the chemical that made Florida inhabitable and eliminated malaria from Central America is not used to save a million lives a year in Africa because of false liberal fears masquerading as science.
Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming 2010
sionnach commented on the word inhabitable
In English, inhabitable is a synonym of habitable.
In Spanish, the two words are antonyms.
Peculiarly, Spanish subscribes to the same lack of logic as English when it comes to burning things:
inflamable* means the same as its counterpart in English - i.e. inflammable (=flammable=burns easily)
As a result, there is no uncomplicated antonym in Spanish - some possibilities are the inelegant ininflamable, incombustible, refractario, and calorífugo. All four of these terms appear in the dictionary of the Royal Academy (RAE).
*: Note that the double-m of the English word does not carry over to Spanish, because of the orthographical rule known as the 'rule of Carolina', which states that the only consonants which can be doubled in Spanish are those appearing in the word 'Carolina'. Exceptions to this rule are generally confined to words borrowed unchanged from another language.
January 10, 2008
seanahan commented on the word inhabitable
Are you sure that habitable and inhabitable mean the same thing? I always assumed that they were opposite.
January 11, 2008
sionnach commented on the word inhabitable
Weirdnet seems to disagree with you, seanahan.
January 11, 2008