unpeopled en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + peopled.
Meanings
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(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:
Deriveds
Synonyms
disinhabited · peopleless · peopleless · uninhabited · inhabited · lifeless · unpopulated · desert · desolate · uninhabited · unpeopled · inhabitantless · untenanted · unoccupied · howling · vacant · tenantless · deserted · unhabited · unpopulated · beingless · wasteful · solitary