habitable

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US/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/British, Southern, Standard/ˈhabɪtəb(ə)l/

adjective

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

“Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.”

Similar
inhabitablelivableliveable
Opposite
unhabitableuninhabitable
OriginMiddle English abitable ← Middle French habitable ← Latin habitābilis →
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Meanings

adjectivehabitable (comparative more habitable, superlative most habitable)

comparative more habitable · superlative most habitable

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

    Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.

    2 more examples

    After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.

    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.

    2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry
  2. Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar
inhabitable
Opposite
unhabitableuninhabitable

adjectivefit for habitation

Similar
inhabitablelivableliveable
Also see
hospitableinhabitablelivable

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinhabitābilis“habitable”
  2. Middle Frenchhabitable
  3. Middle Englishabitable
  4. Englishhabitable

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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Translations

Bulgarian обитаем
  • обитаем (obitaem)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Catalan habitable
  • habitablewhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Czech obyvatelný
  • obyvatelnýwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Dutch bewoonbaar, bewoonbare
  • bewoonbaarwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • bewoonbarewhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Esperanto loĝebla, enloĝebla
  • loĝeblawhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • enloĝeblawhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Finnish asuttava, asuinkelpoinen
  • asuttavawhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • asuinkelpoinenwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
German bewohnbar, habitabel
  • bewohnbarwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • habitabelwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Greek κατοικήσιμος
  • κατοικήσιμος (katoikísimos)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Hindi वासयोग्य
  • वासयोग्य (vāsyogya)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Hungarian lakható
  • lakhatówhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Italian abitabile
  • abitabilewhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Latin habitabilis
  • habitabiliswhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Polish nadający się do zamieszkania
  • nadający się do zamieszkaniawhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Portuguese habitável
  • habitávelwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Romanian locuibil
  • locuibilwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Russian приго́дный для жи́зни, го́дный для жилья́
  • приго́дный для жи́зни (prigódnyj dlja žízni)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • го́дный для жилья́ (gódnyj dlja žilʹjá)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
  • жило́й (žilój)where humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Spanish habitable
  • habitablewhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Swedish beboelig
  • beboeligwhere humans or other animals can live — see also inhabitable
Cite this entry
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “habitable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/habitable.

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