Comfortable and Livable

Comfortable

Comfortable adjective - Providing physical comfort.

Livable is a synonym for comfortable in property topic. In some cases you can use "Livable" instead an adjective "Comfortable", when it comes to topics like fit to be inhabited.

Livable

Livable adjective - Suitable for living in.
Usage example: after we added some furniture and painted the walls, the apartment was livable

Comfortable is a synonym for livable in property topic. You can use "Comfortable" instead an adjective "Livable", if it concerns topics such as adequate, habitable, fit to be inhabited.

Nearby Word: living

Both words in one sentence

  • Life in North Korea while repressive and heavily socially stratified, was nevertheless livable and even comfortable.
  • Underground City This is primarily because the moon being an airless environment, keeping the livable areas pressurized and comfortable is easier when they are built into the ground.
  • It's Scrooge's responsibility as the employer to keep the office at a livable temperature, and he has ample resources to do so, but he doesn't (Dickens makes a point of describing it as very cold, not just less than comfortable).
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