habitable.
Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
Meaning & usage
Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.
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