habitable
adjective(also less frequent inhabitable)
Word Family
- inhabit verb
- habitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabited adjective (≠ uninhabited)
- inhabitant noun
- habitation noun
suitable for people to live in 适合居住的 The house should be habitable by the new year. 房子到新年时应该就可以住进去了。 The room was barely habitable. 这间房间几乎没法住人。 They’ve done their best to make the house habitable. 他们尽了最大努力使房子适合居住。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- make something
- …
- barely
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin habitabilis, from habitare ‘possess, inhabit’.