Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being inhabited, or of affording habitation; suitable for habitation; habitable.
- Not habitable; uninhabitable.
Wiktionary
- adj. fit to live in; habitable (see inflammable for usage note)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being inhabited; habitable.
- adj. Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. fit for habitation
Examples
“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:”
“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.”
“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.”
“The channels seem inhabitable if not for the threadbare mattresses and some out-of-place artwork on the walls.”
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“Okay I know - Africa is not suppose to be seen as an inhabitable place by westerners.”
“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.”
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“We can always move to another planet if this one becomes inhabitable.”
“I'd always envisaged Winterfell as a somewhat smaller and saner (architectually) version of Gormenghast: tons of and tons of buildings and courtyards rambling over acres, only some of them inhabited or inhabitable.”
“A simple $1 billion prize for getting the first inhabitable space station on the moon and to maintain presence for 6 months.”
“It now sits on dry land with a red sticker on the glass sliding door indicating it's no longer inhabitable.”
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sionnach Weirdnet seems to disagree with you, seanahan. Jan 11, 2008
seanahan Are you sure that habitable and inhabitable mean the same thing? I always assumed that they were opposite. Jan 11, 2008
sionnach 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. Jan 10, 2008