uninhabitably

English

Etymology

From uninhabitable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

uninhabitably (comparative more uninhabitably, superlative most uninhabitably)

1. In an uninhabitable way; to an uninhabitable degree.

   It is feared that climate change could make large parts of the earth uninhabitably hot.

   • 1866, Wilkie Collins, chapter 13, in Armadale‎^[1], volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 303:

     In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.

   • 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Arnold Adoff, editor, Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans‎^[2], New York: Macmillan, published 1970, pages 10–11:

     We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already rundown.