inhabitable

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  1. Capable of being inhabited, or of affording habitation; suitable for habitation; habitable. The fixed stars are all of them suns, with systems of inhabitable planets moving about them. Locke.
  2. Not habitable; uninhabitable. He caused it [the town] to be defaced and razed flat to the earth, and made it inhabitable. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 217. In Ynde and abouten Ynde ben mo than 5000 iles gode and grete, that men duellen in, withouten tho that ben inhabitable. Mandeville, Travels, p. 161. Some inhabitable place, Where the hot sun and slime breeds nought but monsters. B. Jonson, Catiline, v. 1.

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  • Then I remembered that the earth is for ever being bombarded by meteor stone, and would be hardly inhabitable were they not in nearly every case turned to vapour in the outer layers of the atmosphere. —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
  • Neither planet has much inhabitable area, and New Washington is largely covered by seas. —  BEN BOVA
  • Declared un-inhabitable the cottages will soon be auctioned off in Louisiana.
  • If fire makes you're home inhabitable, then maybe you need to find a better place to live. —  BBspot
  • 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. —  springfieldnewssun.com - Local-news
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  1. Cf. Anglo-French enhabitable, inhabitant; from Late Latin inhabitabilis, that can be inhabited, from Latin inhabitare, inhabit: see inhabit.
  2. from Middle English inhabitable, from Old French (also F.) inhabitable = Spanish inhabitable = Portuguese inhabitavel = Italian inabitabile, inabitevole, from Latin inhabitabilis, that cannot be inhabited, from in- privative + habitabilis, habitable: see habitable.
 

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