habitable
/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ adjective C1- 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.
- Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
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One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
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