How do you pronounce habitable?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/.

Where does habitable come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

habitable

/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: hab-it-able
IPA: /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/

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Meaning

adj

Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

adj

Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis."

Etymology

From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: abitable, habitable, habitābilis

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Biology.

Inflected Forms

more habitable (comparative) most habitable (superlative)

Derived Forms

habitableness habitably nonhabitable semihabitable superhabitable

Phrases

habitable epoch habitable zone

Frequently Paired Words

habitability habitat inhabitable

Synonyms

inhabitable

Antonyms

unhabitable uninhabitable

Rhymes With

uninhabitable