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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
livable
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a livable wage/salary
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
livable working conditions
▪ Bisbee has recently been voted one of the most livable towns in the country.
▪ The area is poor, but livable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And a few visionaries are also charting ways to fit the automobile into a more livable lifestyle.
▪ Built on stilts near the Brazos River, the shack was livable.
▪ Their feeling for the past gave me hope for the future, and awakened my sense of the livable times ahead.
▪ Tollemarche was livable with Pete, but without him it will be intolerable.
▪ When he bought the Talmadge only 10 out of 50 units were livable, he said.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Livable

Livable \Liv"a*ble\, a.

  1. Such as can be lived.

  2. Such as is pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in. [Colloq.]

    A more delightful or livable region is not easily to be found.
    --T. Arnold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
livable

also liveable, 1610s, "likely to survive," from live (v.) + -able. Meaning "conducive to living" is from 1660s; sense of "suitable for living in" is from 1814 ("Mansfield Park"). Meaning "endurable" is from 1841.

Wiktionary
livable

a. endurable, survivable, suitable for living in, inhabitable.

WordNet
livable

adj. fit or suitable to live in or with; "livable conditions" [syn: liveable] [ant: unlivable]

Usage examples of "livable".

On the ninth day he translates out of system with a warning to Major Leem to keep the guards vigilant, the domes livable, and his mouth more civil to future visitors.

Gradually the tunnels were made livable, lighting was installed, SP-600 high-frequency receivers were brought in, guards were assigned, other buildings were built or restored.

It was a livable kind of room, with built-in bookshelves and plenty of ashtrays and not too fancy chintz covers on the chairs, a pleasant compromise between interior decorating and masculine comfort.

It's just the right size for a town - big enough for cinemas and bookshops, small enough to feel friendly and livable.

Sir Brian was unfortunately only a knight banneret, with a ruined castle which he was hard put to keep livable.

When they are satisfied that Earth is livable again, they'll come ashore and establish a new order, the Fourth Empire, on the bodies of seven billion people, along with the mass destruction of animal and sea life.

Warm, livable, thrumming, soaked with weak microwave radiation, it was alive.

Worlds in which the low altitudes are arctic, and just barely livable for us, while the higher altitudes remain above the bulk of the atmosphere, and thus in a natural state, or close to it.

The trouble was costnobody had the kind of money it would take to make Ondine livable.

Oxygen enough to make Mars livable - but locked forever in red oxide or iron.