单词 | unliveable-in |
释义 | > as lemmasunliveable-in 1. Unfit or unsuitable for living in. Also unliveable-in.In quot. 1834: not conducive to living comfortably; cf. liveable adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable > not undwellablea1382 unhabitablea1382 inhabitablec1400 uninhabitable1448 unhospital1570 unhospitable1612 inhospitable1616 scurrile1632 unreceivable1634 dishabitable1642 disinhabitable1660 untenantablea1661 unliveable1834 1834 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Mar. in Tour Connemara (1950) i. 43 The want of window curtains..gave the whole an unfinished unlivable appearance. 1898 E. F. Benson Money Market ii. 19 He saw no reason for making his own rooms unlivable-in. 1899 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 848 Rural theft makes parts of Sardinia unlivable. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 152/1 (advt.) No cold, unlivable areas—no drafty, icy floors. 1965 O. Manning Friends & Heroes xxix. 360 We can't live here with this gun banging away at all hours. The house has become unliveable-in. 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 110 In the next thirty or forty years, ecological collapse may well make Earth unliveable. < as lemmas |
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