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/lˈɪvəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Livable adj.

Such as can be lived.

Such as is pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in. (Colloq.) "A more delightful or livable region is not easily to be found."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Livable" Quotes from Famous Books

... wound up to the high mountains of the middle island, through them, and then down again to the flat plain on the north shore. The scenery was beautiful. It was as thoroughly tropical as Panama but much more livable. There were palms, tree-ferns, bananas, mangoes, bamboos, and many other trees and multitudes of brilliant flowers. There was one vine called the dream-vine with flowers as big as great white water-lilies, which close up tight in the day-time and bloom at night. ...

— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt

... that rest and quiet was what Mrs. Dudley most needed, so Carrie's task would be comparatively light; and with a stout woman to come twice a week for the heavy work downstairs, the household gave promise of being once more on a livable basis. ...

— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... "Livable!" Captain Elisha's astonishment got the better of his politeness for the moment. "Um! Yes, I should say a body might manage to worry along in it. Was the place where they used to ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

... the great space given to safety devices, to labor-saving machines, to road-making machinery, and to mechanical devices for increasing the comfort of country life, are evidence of the part machinery is coming to play in the task of making life more livable. As an exhibition of modern mechanical invention, Machinery Hall is unique, as all this Exposition is unique. There is almost nothing in it that is not the product of the last ten years; it actually represents construction ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... different from those at Epehy, although the same characteristics due to recent consolidation still prevailed. It was more interesting, however, and in many senses more "livable," a word of deep meaning on the Western front! In the British lines—the canal, the slag-heap (or more correctly slag-heaps) and the wood dominated all other landmarks. The canal, a portion of the Canal du Nord, was in course ...

— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson

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