Uninhabited
[ʌnɪn'hæbɪtɪd] or [,ʌnɪn'hæbɪtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not having inhabitants; not lived in; 'an uninhabited island'; 'gaping doors of uninhabited houses' .
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deserted, unfrequented, solitary, lone, secluded, without inhabitants.
Edited by Alison
Examples
- I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The islands of Oceania were uninhabited. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ground-rents of uninhabited houses ought to pay no tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Northward, in Europe, the Aryan peoples were spreading into hitherto uninhabited country, and so remaining racially more purely Nordic blonds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The house was dark, dismantled: and the all appearance, uninhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To produce this necessary operation in her mind, we concealed our interesting invalid in one of the uninhabited bedrooms at Blackwater. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One is uninhabited; the foresters are going to take it down, as soon as the old man who lives in the other is dead, poor old fellow! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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