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habitablehab‧it‧a‧ble /ˈhæbətəbəl/ adjective - Japan is mostly mountainous and has a only a relatively narrow strip of habitable land along the coasts.
- There are already plans to renovate the buildings and make them habitable.
- As soon as the new building's habitable.
- Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.
- Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.
- The villas themselves looked better than before, deserted except for the few that were privately owned and still habitable.
- There are so many planets out there, some of them habitable.
- They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.
- This process of constructing habitable environments on Mars can be begun at once.
- Two rooms are habitable, with a battered fridge, bedding, sofa, and gas-stove.
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. good enough for people to live in: It would cost a fortune to make the place habitable. |