uninhabitable

uninhabitable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ inhabitable

Adjective

uninhabitable (comparative more uninhabitable, superlative most uninhabitable)

1. Not fit for people (or other living things) to live in; not able to be inhabited.

   The earthquake left many homes in the area uninhabitable.

   Synonyms: unlivable, unoccupiable, (obsolete) unhabitable

   Antonym: inhabitable

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     Though this island seem to be desert,— […]
     Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,—

   • 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53,

     Then there is the misery of leaking roofs and oozing walls, which in winter makes some rooms almost uninhabitable.

Derived terms

• uninhabitably

Translations

not inhabitable

Belarusian: нежылы́ (nježylý) Catalan: inhabitable Czech: neobyvatelný Danish: ubeboelig Dutch: onbewoonbaar (nl) Finnish: asumiskelvoton French: inhabitable (fr) Middle French: inhabitable German: unbewohnbar (de) pl Greek: ακατοίκητος (el) m (akatoíkitos) Hungarian: lakhatatlan (hu) Manx: neuchummaltagh, neuvaghagh Norwegian: Bokmål: ubeboelig Polish: niezamieszkiwalny Portuguese: inabitável (pt) m or f Russian: нежило́й (ru) (nežilój), неприго́дный для жилья́ (neprigódnyj dlja žilʹjá), неприго́дный для прожива́ния (neprigódnyj dlja proživánija) Spanish: inhabitable (es) Ukrainian: нежили́й (nežylýj) Westrobothnian: oboen