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From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (habitable), from habitō (dwell, live).[1] By surface analysis, habit (inhabit) +‎ able.

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habitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)

  1. 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.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry:
      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: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

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  1. ^ habitable, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.

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habitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural habitables)

  1. habitable, inhabitable
    Antonym: inhabitable
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French

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Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.

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habitable (plural habitables)

  1. habitable, inhabitable
    Antonym: inhabitable

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin habitābilis.

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  • IPA(key): /abiˈtable/ [a.β̞iˈt̪a.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: ha‧bi‧ta‧ble

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habitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural habitables)

  1. habitable, inhabitable
    Antonym: inhabitable

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