unhabitable en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + habitable.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Not fit for people to live in; not able to be inhabited.
[…] I could hardly have nam’d a Place in the unhabitable Part of the World where I could have been cast more to my Advantage:
1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC: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.
1650, Thomas Browne, chapter 6, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unhabitable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unhabitable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |