habitable

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Scrabble points: 16
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 9

Pronunciation

/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/

Definition of habitable

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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.”
“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.”

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

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Etymology

From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.

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