unpeopled
English
Etymology
un- + peopled
Adjective
unpeopled (not comparable)
- Not inhabited by people.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 105:
- 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.
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world.
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Synonyms
- peopleless
- uninhabited
- unpopulated