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unlivably

adv

Etymology

From unlivable + -ly.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick”
  2. inherited from *libjaną✻ — “to live”
  3. inherited from *libbjan✻
  4. inherited from libban
  5. inherited from lefe
  6. suffixed as livable — “live + able”
  7. prefixed as unlivable — “un- + livable”
  8. formed as unlivably — “unlivable + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a manner that is unconducive to living.

    • the unlivably low wages
    • They joked about being in a Kipling story of the hill stations in India where the Raj's females lived in cool idleness while their husbands worked in the unlivably hot cities. Kate bemoaned her fate […]
    • […] that enable human beings to extend their presence into unlivably hostile environments (deep space, ocean abysses), […]

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