habitable
Good enough for people or animals to live in.
habitable in a sentence
- After the builders fixed the roof, the old cottage was habitable again.
- Scientists are searching for planets that might be habitable.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to habitable?
- Aliveable
- Bunfit
- Csuitable
Show the answer
B: unfit. The other three mean nearly the same as habitable.
Words that mean something similar
liveable, suitable
Words that mean the opposite
unfit
More words about places & settings
- haven: A safe place where you can shelter from harm.
- hazardous: Dangerous and likely to cause harm.
- inhabit: To live in a place.
- interior: The inside part of something.
- isolate: To keep someone or something apart from others.
- jeopardy: A state of danger, when something could be harmed or lost.
- knoll: A small round hill.
- loom: To appear as a large, worrying shape, or to be about to happen.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test