different between unhabitable vs habitable

English

Etymology

un- +? habitable

Adjective

unhabitable (comparative more unhabitable, superlative most unhabitable)

1. (obsolete) Not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.

   Synonym: uninhabitable

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: E. Dod, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 24,^[1]

     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 have made it the first habitation of all.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. ,^[2]

     […] 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:

Translations

English

Etymology

Originally derived from the Latin habit?bilis (“habitable”), from habit? (“dwell, live”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæb?t?b?l/

Adjective

habitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)

1. Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

Synonyms

• inhabitable

Antonyms

• unhabitable
• uninhabitable

Related terms

• habitability
• habitat
• inhabitable

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin habitabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.bi?ta.ble/
• Homophone: evitable (Central)

Adjective

habitable (masculine and feminine plural habitables)

1. habitable, inhabitable

   Antonym: inhabitable

Related terms

• habitabilitat

Further reading

• “habitable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “habitable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “habitable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “habitable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin habitabilis.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tabl/

Adjective

habitable (plural habitables)

1. habitable, inhabitable

Antonyms

• inhabitable

Further reading

• “habitable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin habitabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi?table/, [a.??i?t?a.??le]

Adjective

habitable (plural habitables)

1. habitable, inhabitable

   Antonym: inhabitable

Related terms

• habitabilidad

Further reading

• “habitable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.