variants
also liveable
as in inhabitable
suitable for living in
after we added some furniture and painted the walls, the apartment was livable
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Recent Examples of livable
More compact, livable and fiscally sound communities?
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Tom Hoctor, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
The three-bedroom home balances character with a livable layout, with two dining spaces with pebble stone floors, a wood-burning fireplace, and an antique wood table.
—Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2026
Chief among the coalition’s asks are guaranteed livable wages for all local World Cup workers, along with accountability mechanisms to ensure that the contractors and subcontractors who hire those workers comply.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Saft approached the project as a finished residence, with the goal of making the home feel immediate and livable.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
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Tom Hoctor, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
The three-bedroom home balances character with a livable layout, with two dining spaces with pebble stone floors, a wood-burning fireplace, and an antique wood table.
—Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2026
Chief among the coalition’s asks are guaranteed livable wages for all local World Cup workers, along with accountability mechanisms to ensure that the contractors and subcontractors who hire those workers comply.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Saft approached the project as a finished residence, with the goal of making the home feel immediate and livable.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for livable
Adjective
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The home is no longer inhabitable, and the Steaves plan to live with family in the area.—
Leondra Head,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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But in the present day, with the glade abandoned, the only hope for construction to stop is for Mabel to find a beaver — a keystone species — that can once again make the area inhabitable.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Brunson scored eight points in his first 12 minutes and looked comfortable almost immediately.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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The family documents describe comfortable lives and prosperous businesses blown apart by the war and the mounting Nazi menace.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Later, it was decided that this module, to provide power and propulsion, would launch in tandem with a habitable volume known as the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) in 2024.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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Seeking the perfect target The Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater on Mars in 2012 with the goal of determining whether the planet were ever habitable.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Livable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livable. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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