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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liveable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clearly, exclusion of through traffic is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating safe and liveable streets.
▪ It makes this cell more liveable in.
▪ It was not a comfortable environment for the boarders, but its very shabbiness made it liveable in.
▪ The rest is done because somebody has to do it, if life is to be liveable.
▪ The Toronto Protocol is entitled: Public Transport -- a major contributor to liveable communities and sustainable development.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
liveable

liveable \liveable\ a. Same as livable; as, liveable conditions. Opposite of unlivable.

Wiktionary
liveable

a. (alternative spelling of livable English) alt. (alternative spelling of livable English)

WordNet
liveable

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

Usage examples of "liveable".

If it takes anywhere near full power to maintain liveable temperature, we ought to know it.

Corbett left that afternoon it was a brighter and more liveable dwelling.

I would never want to go back to that life a sheltered, narrow existence fueled by fear and made liveable by insulation, isolation, and self-indulgence.

It is all homelike, liveable, and pretty, the country of an industrious people, for not a weed is to be seen, but no very striking features or peculiarities arrest one at first sight, unless it be the crowds everywhere.

By the time the ambient air had become liveable, people had learned that settling inside a crater is like moving into a hole.

The overall impression is fairly homogeneous: serious, durable, liveable, but imaginative.

She had captured him, perhaps in that first glance, and both were content to live the aftermath, to cut it down to size, to reduce it to liveable dimensions.

And while all such works were in progress to make the cavern liveable if not 'comfortable,' Lord Radu was not remiss in seeing to its defences: Outside, between the natural spurs of the crag, he built awesome death-trap gantlets for would-be invaders.