habitative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
adj
Pertaining to habitation.
Example Sentences
- "It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so)."
- "Another habitative term occurs in Castlethorpe, which was probably originally a simplex name from Old English throp, thought to denote a settlement initially dependent on a more important place."
- "Taking this fact into account increases the density of known habitative names at Shapwick to 1 about every 185 acres."
- "The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers."
- "Thus, whatever idea, whatever purpose, whatever need, whatever fancy, predominates in him when he builds, it takes shape, it finds expression, it embodies itself, forthwith, in fitting material, fittingly contrived, and is, according to his habitative wish, his taste in a tabernacle, possibly a pig-sty, possibly a palace; for his range of invention stretches over every thing that lies between the two."
- "According to the principle of subsidiarity, government should be as habitative as possible. Government functions must therefore be exercised at the most habitative level, as close as possible to those affected by the exercise of such functions."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more habitative (comparative)
most habitative (superlative)