A place is inhabitable when people or animals can live there — there is enough air, water, shelter, or safety for life. A dry house is inhabitable; a burned floor with no roof is not. In today's English this is the same idea as habitable. The opposite is uninhabitable: you cannot live there. Though actually the history is messy. Latin inhabitable was built as in- meaning “not” plus habitable, so it once meant “you cannot live there.” English later read it as inhabit + -able, “able to be lived in,” and that is the meaning now. Scientists talking about planets often prefer habitable, so nobody hears an old “not” inside the word. In everyday talk, inhabitable is fine and means the place is fit to live in.

可居住的、適於住人的