unhabitable
unhabitable adjective: not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.
Adjective
unhabitable (comparative more unhabitable, superlative most unhabitable)
- Not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.
- They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the earth. But we now know ’tis very well empeopled, and the habitation thereof esteemed so happy, that some have made it the proper seat of Paradise, and beene so farre from judging it unhabitable that they...1650, Thomas Browne, chapter 6, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 24
- […] I could hardly have nam’d a Place in the unhabitable Part of the World where I could have been cast more to my Advantage:1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- uninhabitable
Synonyms of unhabitable
Forms of unhabitable
| comparative | more unhabitable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unhabitable |
Origin of unhabitable
From un- + habitable.
Words formed from unhabitable
Questions about unhabitable
- What does unhabitable mean?
- Unhabitable means not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.
- What part of speech is unhabitable?
- Unhabitable is an adjective.
Words near unhabitable in the dictionary
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