Meanings
comparative more unlivably · superlative most unlivably · alternative unliveably
- In a manner that is unconducive to living.
the unlivably low wages
4 more examples
They joked about being in a Kipling story of the hill stations in India where the Raj's females lived in cool idleness while their husbands worked in the unlivably hot cities. Kate bemoaned her fate […]
2007, Michael Bliss, Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63[…] that enable human beings to extend their presence into unlivably hostile environments (deep space, ocean abysses), […]
2010, Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint, Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBNLater I'd keep imagining them up there in the winter to come, freezing in one of those tiny cabins—previously abandoned because they were unlivably cold.
2015, Keith Gessen, Stephen Squibb, City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, n + 1, →ISBN, page 69"[T]hey are not trying to live a decent life in the United States.” They couldn't, on their meager wages. Their frame of reference is their much poorer home country, and what seem like unlivably low wages here and worth a lot more there.
2018, Aviva Chomsky, "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, Expanded Edition, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 16Antonyms: livably
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a manner that is unconducive to living.
Origin
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unlivably. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlivably
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