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Synonyms for inhabit
ɪnˈhæb ɪtin·hab·it

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 3 votes

  1. inhabit

    To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

    Synonyms:
    abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

    Antonyms:
    abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

    Preposition:
    Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. inhabit

    Synonyms:
    tenant, colonize, settle, dwell in, reside in, live in, occupy

    Antonyms:
    abandon, forsake, migrate

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. populate, dwell, live, inhabitverb

    inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

    "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"

    Synonyms:
    go, exist, harp, live, hold out, populate, lie in, brood, be, experience, hold up, subsist, dwell, live on, lie, consist, endure, survive, know, last

  2. inhabitverb

    be present in

    "sweet memories inhabit this house"

    Synonyms:
    dwell, live, populate

  3. dwell, inhabitverb

    exist or be situated within

    "Strange notions inhabited her mind"

    Synonyms:
    lie in, dwell, populate, harp, brood, live, lie, consist

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. indwellverb

    take up residence in

    Submitted by Providence on June 30, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inhabitverb

    Synonyms:
    occupy, dwell in, live in, reside in

  2. inhabitverb

    Synonyms:
    dwell, reside, sojourn, live, abide

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "inhabit":

    live, reside

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How to use inhabit in a sentence?

  1. William R. Matthews:

    Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

  2. Abraham Lincoln:

    This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  3. John F. Kennedy:

    For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

  4. Francesco Petrarch:

    Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  5. Henry Miller:

    Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.


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