Crossword clues for livable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Livable \Liv"a*ble\, a.
Such as can be lived.
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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
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
a. endurable, survivable, suitable for living in, inhabitable.
WordNet
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.