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Inhabitable

Inhabitable \In*hab"it*a*ble\, a. [L. inhabitabilis. See Inhabit.] Capable of being inhabited; habitable.

Systems of inhabitable planets.
--Locke.

Inhabitable

Inhabitable \In*hab"it*a*ble\, a. [L. inhabitabilis: cf. F. inhabitable. See In- not, and Habitable.] Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited. [Obs.]

The frozen ridges of the Alps Or other ground inhabitable.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhabitable

a word used in two opposite senses: "not habitable" (late 14c., from in- (1) "not" + habitable) and "capable of being inhabited" (c.1600, from inhabit + -able).

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inhabitable

Etymology 1 a. fit to live in; habitable (see inflammable for usage note) Etymology 2

a. (context obsolete English) Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.

WordNet
inhabitable

adj. fit for habitation; "the habitable world" [syn: habitable]

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Inhabitable

Usage examples of "inhabitable".

It is a new land, uninhabited but very inhabitable and has room for millions of people.

They are made to seem like kooks and quaint dingbats who have the nerve to believe that, in an observable universe of trillions upon trillions of stars, and most likely many hundreds of billions of potentially inhabitable planets, some of those planets may have produced life-forms capable of doing things that we cant do.

Verside was banished to a planet Zan Burlorek deemed barely inhabitable, yet the Verside found the zeel and found a way to harvest the precious gem.

The fast-thinking Matrioshka brains are as incomprehensible to their merely posthuman ancestors as an ICBM to an amoeba and about as inhabitable.

So it went among rulers and ministers, common folk and specialists, as the news traveled across the starfield and throughout the fractious civilization humankind had inflicted on inhabitable worlds other than Earth.

Beta Hydrae III, and on several other inhabitable worlds in the same general region of space.

As the only complex plant that would thrive in Opteran soil, it sustained much of the CO2-oxygen cycle that made the planet inhabitable.