liveable

Word family

live·a·ble especially British EnglishBrE, livable especially American EnglishAmE /ˈlɪvəbəl/ adjectiveadj

1 a situation that is liveable is satisfactory but not good 还算不错的，过得去的 SYN bearable

Having the children had made his life more liveable.

有了孩子以后他的生活更有意义了。

a) (also liveable in British English) good enough to live in 适合居住的 SYN habitable

We need to do more to make the neighborhood more livable.

要让这个街区更适合居住，我们需要做得更多。

b) nice to live in 〔居住环境〕舒适的，宜人的

It’s one of the most liveable cities in the US.

这里是美国最宜人的城市之一。

3. a livable wage/salary American EnglishAmE a salary that is enough for you to buy the things you need, such as food, a house etc 足够度日的工资

Examples from the Corpus

liveable• The rest is done because somebody has to do it, if life is to be liveable.• The Toronto Protocol is entitled: Public Transport -- a major contributor to liveable communities and sustainable development.• It makes this cell more liveable in.• It was not a comfortable environment for the boarders, but its very shabbiness made it liveable in.• Clearly, exclusion of through traffic is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating safe and liveable streets.

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liveable

Not very good: poor, average, limited...