as in inhabitable
suitable for living in
the frigid Arctic is not habitable for amphibians and reptiles—or for humans, either, for that matter
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Recent Examples of habitable
Gateway is a habitable space station designed to orbit the Moon and serve as a staging point for astronaut and cargo missions to and from the lunar surface.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The project is to include 10,222 square feet of habitable space and a 6,747-square-foot underground garage with 12 parking spaces and bicycle parking.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Say your body is only flesh and not a house of habitable organs.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Remote mining operations also often need both heat and power to operate equipment, ensure living quarters are habitable and process minerals.
—Leonel Lagos, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The project is to include 10,222 square feet of habitable space and a 6,747-square-foot underground garage with 12 parking spaces and bicycle parking.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
Say your body is only flesh and not a house of habitable organs.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Remote mining operations also often need both heat and power to operate equipment, ensure living quarters are habitable and process minerals.
—Leonel Lagos, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitable
inhabitable
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The effects of it — the societal collapse, the potential for a planet that becomes inhabitable, the domino effects of countries behaving badly and economies collapsing because of climate change — are very real issues that should be front and center of our conversations right now.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
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Or has our world become a little bit too inhabitable?—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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