uninhabitably
English
Etymology
uninhabitable + -ly
Adverb
uninhabitably (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.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 303,
- 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.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” in Arnold Adoff (ed.), Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans, New York: Macmillan, 1970, pp. 10-11,
- We 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.