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habitable

adj
/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.

  1. derived from habitābilis
  2. derived from habitable
  3. inherited from abitable

Definitions

  1. Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live

    Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

    • After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
    • Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
    • Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.

  2. Of an astronomical object

    Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

The neighborhood

Derived

habitable epoch, habitableness, habitable zone, habitably, nonhabitable, semihabitable, superhabitable

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for habitable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA