livable
adjective
liv·able
| \ ˈli-və-bəl
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variants:
or less commonly liveable
Definition of livable
1
: suitable for living in, on, or with
a livable house livable wages
2
: endurable
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Examples of livable in a Sentence
They described the house as very livable.
People need jobs that will pay them livable wages.
Recent Examples on the Web
Department officials also looked for new solutions to the problem of obsolescence — the number of public housing units that need to be updated every year in order to remain livable. — Los Angeles Times, "As homelessness crisis grows, the Trump administration has made few new efforts," 26 July 2019 And their work is paying off in other important ways: Making the neighborhood look more livable is attracting businesses to the neighborhood, which in 2015 opened its first restaurant, a juice bar. — Erin Kelly, CBS News, "Couple helps transform blighted Milwaukee community, one block at a time," 25 July 2019 The company helped raise awareness of the growing walking and biking movements, which aim to get people out of cars and into more livable communities. — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, "49 environmental victories since the first Earth Day," 22 Apr. 2019 The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, but the home does not appear to be livable, authorities said. — Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle, "Volunteer firefighters rescue family pet from Cy-Fair house fire," 28 June 2019 And yet the universe is filled with stars, nearly all those stars have planets, and some of those planets are surely livable. — Quanta Magazine, "Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox," 7 Mar. 2019 At the moment, Berlin is compulsively livable, with few crowds, little crime, and cheap groceries. — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, "The Causes and Consequences of Berlin’s Rapid Gentrification," 12 July 2019 The end result is a cheery mobile oasis that manages to balance an airy style with sleek, livable design. — Megan Barber, Curbed, "1960s Airstream transformed into modern oasis," 3 July 2019 The Guatemalan family, unnamed in court records, was promised a better life in the U.S., with a livable wage and education for the young girls, who were born in 2001 and 2008, prosecutors said. — Alejandra Reyes-velarde, latimes.com, "California couple abused Guatemalan immigrants, forcing them to work, prosecutors say," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'livable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for livable
livable
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of livable
: suitable to live in : enjoyable to live in
US
: making it possible to live or to have the things that people need to live properly
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