habitable

Etymology

Originally derived from the Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”).

adj

  1. Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
    After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
    Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
    Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry
  2. Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

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