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Habitable vs Residential - What's the difference?

habitable | residential |

As adjectives the difference between habitable and residential

is that habitable is safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation while residential is of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.

As a noun residential is

a trip during which people temporarily live together.

habitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
    • After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable .

    Related terms

    * habitat * inhabitable

    Antonyms

    * unhabitable * uninhabitable

    residential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.
    • They live in a residential neighborhood.
  • Of or pertaining to residency.
    • There is a residential requirement for obtaining a marriage license here.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trip during which people temporarily live together.
    • The youth group organises annual residentials .