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uninhabitableun‧in‧hab‧it‧a‧ble /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbətəbəl◂/ adjective   - A nuclear accident would make the whole region uninhabitable.
- Twenty of the houses damaged by the storm were declared uninhabitable.
- A simple piece of historical reflection will show that industrialization rendered many localities virtually uninhabitable as long as two hundred years ago.
- A total of 500 council houses have been declared uninhabitable and it will cost £2m to deal with them.
- All over Bosnia, dwellings are burnt out, uninhabitable, or simply not there any more.
- Already previously damaged, the deaf centre was now made totally uninhabitable.
- Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed, or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable.
- But fiery activism or evasive quiescence are the poles of choice and the poles are notoriously uninhabitable.
- It came to nothing, the police moved in, evicted the squatters, and the Bell/Genesis Hall was rendered uninhabitable.
suitable/not suitable for people to live in► habitable a building or area of land that is habitable is suitable for people to live in, for example because it is clean enough, warm enough, safe enough etc: · There are already plans to renovate the buildings and make them habitable.· Japan is mostly mountainous and has a only a relatively narrow strip of habitable land along the coasts. ► be fit to live in if a building is fit to live in , it is in a suitable condition for people to live in it: · As soon as the farm was fit to live in, we moved all our things there.not be fit to live in (=not in a suitable condition for people to live in): · The first apartment we looked at just wasn't fit to live in. ► uninhabitable not suitable for living in or on: · A nuclear accident would make the whole region uninhabitable.· Twenty of the houses damaged by the storm were declared uninhabitable. ► unfit for human habitation not suitable for people to live in, especially because of being dirty, cold, or wet - used especially in official contexts: · The court was told that Blake had charged hundreds of dollars in rent for rooms that were unfit for human habitation.· In the 1960s, the flats were declared unfit for human habitation and demolished. if a place is uninhabitable, it is impossible to live in:  Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert. Many houses were so badly damaged in the war that they were made permanently uninhabitable. |