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English
Etymology
From un- + habitable.
Adjective
unhabitable (comparative more unhabitable, superlative most unhabitable)
- (obsolete) Not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.
- Synonym: uninhabitable
1650, Thomas Browne, chapter 6, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 1st book, page 24:They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the earth. But we now know ’tis very well empeopled, and the habitation thereof esteemed so happy, that some have made it the proper seat of Paradise, and beene so farre from judging it unhabitable that they have made it the first habitation of all.
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