habitable
adjective
capable of being inhabited.
unhabitable
-
a word derived from
habitable.
Example Sentences
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He added that he feels his only option is to "dismantle the cottages and render them unhabitable" by removing the kitchens and bathrooms.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable."
From Time Magazine Archive
Timor is the older island and received immigrants from Australia at a period when, probably, Lombok and Flores had not come into existence or were unhabitable....
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by James Marchant
Hear Reason yet—no human Being can get entrance here; Look round this Castle, and no other Object Will meet your Eyes, but a watery Wilderness, And distant and unhabitable Lands.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers
It was the period when— Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures filled their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Placed elephants for want of towns.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
