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inhabit

English

Alternative forms

  • enhabit (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare (in + habitare).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?hæb?t/
  • Hyphenation: in?hab?it
  • Rhymes: -æb?t

Verb

inhabit (third-person singular simple present inhabits, present participle inhabiting, simple past and past participle inhabited)

  1. (transitive) To live or reside in.
    • 1813, Thomas Moore, The Last Rose of Summer
      O, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
  2. (transitive) To be present in; to occupy.

Synonyms

  • (to live or reside in some place): bedwell; See also Thesaurus:reside
  • (to be present in some place): occupy

Derived terms

  • inhabitable

Related terms

  • inhabitant

Translations

inhabit From the web:

  • what inhabited chloe slime
  • what inhabitants means
  • what inhabits antarctica
  • what inhabits the north pole
  • what inhibits iron absorption
  • what inhibits the growth of eubacteria
  • what inhibits the growth of bacteria in inanimate environments
  • what inhibits calcium absorption

uninhabitable

English

Etymology

un- +? inhabitable

Adjective

uninhabitable (comparative more uninhabitable, superlative most uninhabitable)

  1. Not fit for people (or other living things) to live in; not able to be inhabited.
    Synonyms: unlivable, unoccupiable, (obsolete) unhabitable
    Antonym: inhabitable
    • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
      Though this island seem to be desert,— […]
      Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,—
    • 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53,[2]
      Then there is the misery of leaking roofs and oozing walls, which in winter makes some rooms almost uninhabitable.

Derived terms

  • uninhabitably

Translations

uninhabitable From the web:

  • what uninhabitable mean
  • what is uninhabitable living conditions
  • what does uninhabitable
  • what is uninhabitable living conditions in california
  • what does uninhabitable mean in real estate
  • what is uninhabitable in a rental property
  • what does uninhabitable mean in english
  • what is uninhabitable living conditions uk
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