uninhabitable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not suitable or safe for people or other living things to live in

   The explorers avoided the uninhabitable planets with hydrogen-ammonia atmospheres.

Formed from un-, 'not,' and inhabitable, 'capable of being lived in.' Inhabitable comes through French and Latin from habitare, 'to dwell,' a frequentative form related to habere, 'to have or hold.'

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