uninhabitable
adjective
un·in·hab·it·able
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Definition of uninhabitable
: unfit for habitation : not inhabitable
an uninhabitable wilderness
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Consequently, Wong says, any surviving worlds will probably be uninhabitable—and those producing the strongest gravitational-wave signals will be uncomfortably close to their white dwarf hosts. — Conor Purcell, Scientific American, "Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Find Exoplanets, Too," 8 July 2019 Smoke from the fire, however, left the home uninhabitable. — Jason Green, The Mercury News, "San Jose: 1 injured, 6 displaced by two-alarm house fire," 27 June 2019 By studying Venus, researchers could learn a lot about how a promising Earth-like planet—our own, or those orbiting other stars—can become uninhabitable. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, "Burying CAESAR: How NASA Picks Winners—and Losers—in Space Exploration," 25 July 2019 Rampant poverty, entrenched political corruption, urban crime, and the effects of climate change have made large swaths of the country virtually uninhabitable. — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, "Trump Poised to Sign a Radical Agreement to Send Future Asylum Seekers to Guatemala," 12 July 2019 But hundreds of those units are subsidized luxury apartments and more than 1,000 are homes that have undergone repairs, yet in some cases remain uninhabitable. — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, "Jim Merritt and Joe Hogsett say each other's to blame for renters' nightmares in Indianapolis," 3 July 2019 The unspoken question is whether the vast manipulations he documents, which are literally changing the climate, could eventually make the blue planet uninhabitable. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Edward Burtynsky photos at Cleveland Museum of Art document mankind’s troubled relationship with water," 23 June 2019 Now that their human playthings have ruined the sport by making Earth largely uninhabitable, the Vril are left sulking in their favorite historical forms, which include Genghis Khan and Margaret Thatcher. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, "In the sci-fi spoof Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Alien Hitler rides a T-Rex to war," 17 July 2019 Officials say ash from the fire three summers ago made water in Hayden Creek uninhabitable, and the surviving fish were taken to a hatchery near Crested Butte to spawn. — USA TODAY, "Crystal Cathedral reborn Catholic, 'Conjuring' house, Wiki ‘editathon’: News from around our 50 states," 11 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'uninhabitable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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uninhabitable
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of uninhabitable
: not safe or suitable to be lived in
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