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unhoused

/ʌnˈhaʊzd/

unhoused adjective: driven from one's home. Also the simple past and past participle of unhouse.

Adjective

unhoused (not comparable)

  1. Driven from one's home.
  2. (euphemistic) Homeless.
    • This combination of law and design can sometimes be so effective that it renders the entire problem of homelessness—and also the unhoused people themselves—invisible to others.2017, Robert Rosenberger, Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN
    • In a remote stretch of southern California desert, at least 200 unhoused people live outside, battling the extremes: blazing hot temperatures in the summer, snow in winter, rugged terrain inaccessible to many vehicles, a constant wind that blankets everything with silt, and no running water for...2022 July 18, Sam Levin, “As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert”, in The Guardian
  3. Not located within a housing.
    • an unhoused engine

Also used as

unhoused is also the simple past and past participle of unhouse.

Examples of unhoused in a sentence

  • Gone was the college student embracing the opportunity to help an unhoused man.2024 March 12, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an 'unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington...
  • On the way to work, I would pass people shooting up drugs in front of the subway stations, the unhoused peeing on sidewalks just blocks from my office.2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

Antonyms of unhoused

Origin of unhoused

From un- + house + -ed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from unhoused

Words that rhyme with unhoused

Questions about unhoused

What does unhoused mean?
Unhoused means driven from one's home.
How do you use unhoused in a sentence?
Gone was the college student embracing the opportunity to help an unhoused man.
What part of speech is unhoused?
Unhoused is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unhoused?
Unhoused is pronounced /ʌnˈhaʊzd/.

Words near unhoused in the dictionary

  1. unhounded
  2. unhoundlike
  3. unhousable
  4. unhouse
  5. unhousebroken
  6. unhoused
  7. unhousedness
  8. unhouseled
  9. unhouselike
  10. unhouselled
  11. unhouses

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