habitable
adjUS /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ · UK /ˈhabɪtəb(ə)l/
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
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.
1 more example
- 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.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry:
2
Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
- Synonyms
- inhabitable
- Antonyms
- unhabitable, uninhabitable
- Derived terms
- habitable epoch, habitableness, habitable zone, habitably, nonhabitable, semihabitable, superhabitable
- Related terms
- habitability, habitat, inhabitable