habitable

UK /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ US /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/

adj 2

Definitions

adj

Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.

Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.

Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

remain

make sth, render sth

After the flood, it took months of repairs to render their apartment habitable again.

consider sth

Scientists now consider Mars potentially habitable for human settlement in the future.

ADV

barely

The old apartment was barely habitable until they fixed the leaking roof and broken windows.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — fit for habitation

inhabitable

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.

Wiktionary

Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.

Wiktionary

Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.

Wiktionary

For centuries, it was thought that Venus could not be habitable without terraforming.

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All houses are supposed to be habitable.

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European scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system.

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