Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not habitable; uninhabitable.
  • Capable of being inhabited, or of affording habitation; suitable for habitation; habitable.

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 to live in; habitable (see inflammable for usage note)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective fit for habitation

Etymologies

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Latin inhabitabilis: compare French inhabitable. See in- not, and habitable.

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inhabit +‎ -able

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  • 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

  • Are you sure that habitable and inhabitable mean the same thing? I always assumed that they were opposite.

    January 11, 2008

  • Weirdnet seems to disagree with you, seanahan.

    January 11, 2008