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Inhabitable

//ɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Fit to live in; habitable.

    "It is more ſuitable to the wiſdom, power and greatneſs of God, to think that the fixt Stars are all of them Suns, with Syſtems of inhabitable Planets moving about them, to whoſe Inhabitants he diſplays the marks of his Goodneſs as well as to us[…]"

  2. 2
    Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited. obsolete

    "[…] Which to maintaine, I would allow him ods, / And meete him were I tied to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    fit for habitation wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From inhabit + -able.

Etymology 2

From Middle English inhabitable, inhabytabill, from Middle French inhabitable and its etymon Latin inhabitābilis (“uninhabitable”). By surface analysis, in- + habitable.

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