uninhabitably
English edit
Etymology edit
uninhabitable + -ly
Adverb edit
uninhabitably (comparative more uninhabitably, superlative most uninhabitably)
- In an uninhabitable way; to an uninhabitable degree.
- It is feared that climate change could make large parts of the earth uninhabitably hot.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, chapter 13, in Armadale[1], volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 303:
- In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Arnold Adoff, editor, Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans[2], New York: Macmillan, published 1970, pages 10–11:
- We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already rundown.