habitable

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."

Related Words