liveablelivableadj.

Brit.

/ˈlɪvəbl/, U.S.

/ˈlɪvəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s liueable, 1700s– liveable, 1800s– livable (chiefly U.S.).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: live v.¹, -able suffix.

Etymology: < live v.¹ + -able suffix, in sense 1 after French viable viable adj.¹

†1. Likely to live. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > viable

lifelike1600

vital1608

liveable1611

subsistable?1636

vivacious1660

viable1828

survivable1879

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Viable, liueable, likelie to liue.

†a. Conducive to comfortable living. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > comfortable (of conditions or way of life)

easyc1380

easefulc1425

commodiousa1528

commoditious1574

carpeta1639

large1722

snug1766

comfortable1769

liveable1794

comfy1829

featherbed-campaigner1888

rose water1889

1794 W. Combe Hist. Principal Rivers Great Brit. I. 278 This place [sc. Taplow-house], though it yields the palm of magnificence to Cliefden, exceeds it in..the possession of what, in fashionable phraseology, are denominated liveable comforts.

1834 M. Boddington Slight Reminisc. Rhine I. 286 I often think, as I move along..of the dear liveable things that we create out of (sometimes) very scanty materials.

b. Of wages, salary, or income: enough to live on.

ΚΠ

1891 Hansard Commons 13 Feb. 623 Unless it is found that the wages are no longer starvation wages, but liveable wages, the War Office decline to allow the contractor to undertake the work.

1941 Slave Narr. (Federal Writers' Project WPA) XVI. iv. 194 If they'll pay folks liveable wages, they'll be less stealin' and slummerin' and goin's on.

1999 C. Musengezi in Y. Vera Opening Spaces 128 Teachers pocketed monthly wages—decent and liveable ones—that equalled those of our local white counterparts.

3. Of a building, environment, region, etc.: that may be lived in; that is suitable for habitation. Also, of a room, house, city, or region: that provides comfortable or congenial living.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable

biglyc1400

habitablea1425

tenantable1542

inhabitable1601

liveable1814

occupiable1814

occupable1853

live-in1955

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vii. 146 There will be work for five summers at least before the place is live-able .

1830 T. Campbell Let. 8 Sept. in Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) II. xix. 310 You will find me in a far more liveable part of London than I lived in before.

1838 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott VII. ii. 55 He [sc. Scott] used to say that he did not know a more ‘liveable’ country [than the vale of Tweed].

1849 Ld. Carlisle Jrnl. 12 Feb. in G. O. Trevelyan Life Ld. Macaulay (1889) 479 His rooms at the top of the Albany are very liveable.

1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. 202 [South Park] looked to me quite lowland and livable.

1895 Athenæum 10 Aug. 195/3 If men had learnt the art of living in Africa, that continent would prove quite as ‘livable’ as Brazil.

1921 E. Ferber Girls ix. 176 Belle's front room was a carefully careless place—livable, inviting.

1944 N. Straus 7 Myths of Housing v. 90 Raw land may become an important factor in enabling communities to plan on broad lines for more livable cities and a more livable countryside.

2005 High Country News 13 June 2/1 The small but promising movement to make the region's cities more livable.

4. Chiefly with with.

a. Of a person: that may be lived with; companionable, sociable. Cf. unliveable-with adj. at unliveable adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > [adjective] > living in society > capable of

social1562

liveable1829

1829 S. Morgan Bk. Boudoir I. 128 He was one of those cheerful, liveable, give-and-take persons, in private, who are so invaluable in villa-life.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. viii. 160 Then there is your gloomy man..perhaps a large-hearted, humorous, but sad man—at the same time liveable with.

1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 305 Many men and women are of irreproachable character in all the great essentials, yet are not liveable people.

1888 Athenæum 21 Apr. 501/3 Few will leave so pleasant an impression [as Matthew Arnold], few will seem so livable-with as he.

1896 E. F. Benson Babe B.A. 7 They were both..very live-able-with.

1933 H. Miller Let. 24 May in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 159 I am happy, gay, livable.

1993 Mod. Lang. Rev. 88 219 Wicksteed, Hillard, and Jackson are more livable with, but the need for a fresh translation has even so been apparent for some time.

b. Of a problem, condition, or situation: able to be lived with, bearable.

ΚΠ

1971 Nimlo Munic. Law Rev. 34B 100 We hope to prove that these engines can be installed at a price which is liveable with by the airlines.

1979 G. Poggi in H. Davis et al. tr. N. Luhmann Trust & Power Introd. p. x Successful responses..do not eliminate complexity, but rather reduce it: that is, make it ‘livable with’ while in some sense preserving it.

2004 C. Markham Top Consultant (ed. 4) iii. 33 Organizations are rife with problems. Many of the problems are liveable with or they eventually go away.

5. Of life: that can be lived; bearable, supportable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [adjective] > forbearing or tolerant > endurable or tolerable

portablec1450

supportablec1450

tolerablea1500

durable1509

comportable1599

tractable1605

bearable1656

endurable1800

brookable1824

liveable1841

1841 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) II. App. C. 436 But not the strongest Tory or Conservative values our Church or Law more than I do, or would find life less liveable without them.

1865 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell 541 I cannot yet see how life is livable.

1896 Nation (N.Y.) 62 28/3 Who has for three years found life quite livable.

1992 T. Morrison Jazz 76 The watched and guarded environment where unmarried and unmarriageable pregnancy was the end and close of livable life.

2007 M. Lloyd Judith Butler vi. 134 She turns her attention to the problem of what makes for a liveable life.

Derivatives

ˈlivableness n. the quality of being livable or livable with; (in quot. 1895) capability of living, ‘viability’.

ΘΚΠ

society > [noun] > ability to live with others

livableness1860

the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > viability

viability1843

livableness1860

vitability1889

the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance > quality of being endurable or tolerable

comportableness1642

supportableness1649

patiency1655

tolerablenessa1678

bearableness1727

supportability1800

livableness1860

bearability1881

1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 305 Everybody who has ever been a member of a household or a family, must have a ready conception of the quality—liveableness.

1895 Athenæum 27 July 129/1 The articles..are very fair of their kind. But they have absolutely no independent livableness.

1910 Classical Jrnl. 5 212 It is the aim of the instructors..to demonstrate the ‘liveableness’ of Roman life and customs.

2001 W. Beard Artist as Monster iii. 46 A central and inexorable movement in Cronenberg's films..away from any notions of the possible friendliness or liveableness of the Other and towards a recognition of its poisonous destructiveness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	liveable
释义	liveablelivableadj. Brit. /ˈlɪvəbl/, U.S. /ˈlɪvəb(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s liueable, 1700s– liveable, 1800s– livable (chiefly U.S.). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: live v.¹, -able suffix. Etymology: < live v.¹ + -able suffix, in sense 1 after French viable viable adj.¹ †1. Likely to live. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > viable lifelike1600 vital1608 liveable1611 subsistable?1636 vivacious1660 viable1828 survivable1879 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Viable, liueable, likelie to liue. 2. †a. Conducive to comfortable living. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > comfortable (of conditions or way of life) easyc1380 easefulc1425 commodiousa1528 commoditious1574 carpeta1639 large1722 snug1766 comfortable1769 liveable1794 comfy1829 featherbed-campaigner1888 rose water1889 1794 W. Combe Hist. Principal Rivers Great Brit. I. 278 This place [sc. Taplow-house], though it yields the palm of magnificence to Cliefden, exceeds it in..the possession of what, in fashionable phraseology, are denominated liveable comforts. 1834 M. Boddington Slight Reminisc. Rhine I. 286 I often think, as I move along..of the dear liveable things that we create out of (sometimes) very scanty materials. b. Of wages, salary, or income: enough to live on. ΚΠ 1891 Hansard Commons 13 Feb. 623 Unless it is found that the wages are no longer starvation wages, but liveable wages, the War Office decline to allow the contractor to undertake the work. 1941 Slave Narr. (Federal Writers' Project WPA) XVI. iv. 194 If they'll pay folks liveable wages, they'll be less stealin' and slummerin' and goin's on. 1999 C. Musengezi in Y. Vera Opening Spaces 128 Teachers pocketed monthly wages—decent and liveable ones—that equalled those of our local white counterparts. 3. Of a building, environment, region, etc.: that may be lived in; that is suitable for habitation. Also, of a room, house, city, or region: that provides comfortable or congenial living. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable biglyc1400 habitablea1425 tenantable1542 inhabitable1601 liveable1814 occupiable1814 occupable1853 live-in1955 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vii. 146 There will be work for five summers at least before the place is live-able . View more context for this quotation 1830 T. Campbell Let. 8 Sept. in Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) II. xix. 310 You will find me in a far more liveable part of London than I lived in before. 1838 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott VII. ii. 55 He [sc. Scott] used to say that he did not know a more ‘liveable’ country [than the vale of Tweed]. 1849 Ld. Carlisle Jrnl. 12 Feb. in G. O. Trevelyan Life Ld. Macaulay (1889) 479 His rooms at the top of the Albany are very liveable. 1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. 202 [South Park] looked to me quite lowland and livable. 1895 Athenæum 10 Aug. 195/3 If men had learnt the art of living in Africa, that continent would prove quite as ‘livable’ as Brazil. 1921 E. Ferber Girls ix. 176 Belle's front room was a carefully careless place—livable, inviting. 1944 N. Straus 7 Myths of Housing v. 90 Raw land may become an important factor in enabling communities to plan on broad lines for more livable cities and a more livable countryside. 2005 High Country News 13 June 2/1 The small but promising movement to make the region's cities more livable. 4. Chiefly with with. a. Of a person: that may be lived with; companionable, sociable. Cf. unliveable-with adj. at unliveable adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > [adjective] > living in society > capable of social1562 liveable1829 1829 S. Morgan Bk. Boudoir I. 128 He was one of those cheerful, liveable, give-and-take persons, in private, who are so invaluable in villa-life. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. viii. 160 Then there is your gloomy man..perhaps a large-hearted, humorous, but sad man—at the same time liveable with. 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 305 Many men and women are of irreproachable character in all the great essentials, yet are not liveable people. 1888 Athenæum 21 Apr. 501/3 Few will leave so pleasant an impression [as Matthew Arnold], few will seem so livable-with as he. 1896 E. F. Benson Babe B.A. 7 They were both..very live-able-with. 1933 H. Miller Let. 24 May in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 159 I am happy, gay, livable. 1993 Mod. Lang. Rev. 88 219 Wicksteed, Hillard, and Jackson are more livable with, but the need for a fresh translation has even so been apparent for some time. b. Of a problem, condition, or situation: able to be lived with, bearable. ΚΠ 1971 Nimlo Munic. Law Rev. 34B 100 We hope to prove that these engines can be installed at a price which is liveable with by the airlines. 1979 G. Poggi in H. Davis et al. tr. N. Luhmann Trust & Power Introd. p. x Successful responses..do not eliminate complexity, but rather reduce it: that is, make it ‘livable with’ while in some sense preserving it. 2004 C. Markham Top Consultant (ed. 4) iii. 33 Organizations are rife with problems. Many of the problems are liveable with or they eventually go away. 5. Of life: that can be lived; bearable, supportable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [adjective] > forbearing or tolerant > endurable or tolerable portablec1450 supportablec1450 tolerablea1500 durable1509 comportable1599 tractable1605 bearable1656 endurable1800 brookable1824 liveable1841 1841 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) II. App. C. 436 But not the strongest Tory or Conservative values our Church or Law more than I do, or would find life less liveable without them. 1865 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell 541 I cannot yet see how life is livable. 1896 Nation (N.Y.) 62 28/3 Who has for three years found life quite livable. 1992 T. Morrison Jazz 76 The watched and guarded environment where unmarried and unmarriageable pregnancy was the end and close of livable life. 2007 M. Lloyd Judith Butler vi. 134 She turns her attention to the problem of what makes for a liveable life. Derivatives ˈlivableness n. the quality of being livable or livable with; (in quot. 1895) capability of living, ‘viability’. ΘΚΠ society > [noun] > ability to live with others livableness1860 the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > viability viability1843 livableness1860 vitability1889 the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance > quality of being endurable or tolerable comportableness1642 supportableness1649 patiency1655 tolerablenessa1678 bearableness1727 supportability1800 livableness1860 bearability1881 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 305 Everybody who has ever been a member of a household or a family, must have a ready conception of the quality—liveableness. 1895 Athenæum 27 July 129/1 The articles..are very fair of their kind. But they have absolutely no independent livableness. 1910 Classical Jrnl. 5 212 It is the aim of the instructors..to demonstrate the ‘liveableness’ of Roman life and customs. 2001 W. Beard Artist as Monster iii. 46 A central and inexorable movement in Cronenberg's films..away from any notions of the possible friendliness or liveableness of the Other and towards a recognition of its poisonous destructiveness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611
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