unpeopled
unpeopled adjective: not inhabited by people.
Adjective
unpeopled (not comparable)
- Not inhabited by people.
- Still, one mansion, which the time ought to have unpeopled, was evidently inhabited; and in one of its rooms—small, but luxurious enough for a sultana in the Arabian Nights, or a young gentleman of the present day—were seated two persons in earnest conversation.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105
- I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- peopleless, uninhabited, unpopulated, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate, disinhabited, inhabitantless
Synonyms of unpeopled
- peopleless
- uninhabited
- unpopulated
- beingless
- desert
- deserted
- howling
- desolate
- inhabitantless
- lifeless
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Origin of unpeopled
From un- + peopled.
Words formed from unpeopled
Questions about unpeopled
- What does unpeopled mean?
- Unpeopled means not inhabited by people.
- What part of speech is unpeopled?
- Unpeopled is an adjective.
Words near unpeopled in the dictionary
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