Meanings
comparative more uninhabitably · superlative most uninhabitably
- In an uninhabitable way; to an uninhabitable degree.
It is feared that climate change could make large parts of the earth uninhabitably hot.
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In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.
1866, Wilkie Collins, chapter 13, in Armadale, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 303We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already rundown.
1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Arnold Adoff, editor, Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans, New York: Macmillan, published 1970, pages 10–11
Origin
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