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unpeopled

[ uhn-pee-puhld ]

adjective

  1. without people; uninhabited.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unpeopled1

First recorded in 1580–90; un- 1 + people ( def ), -ed 2( def )
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Example Sentences

This has remained an option, particularly for those who can retreat into an unpeopled nature, but increasingly it has been accompanied by a form of isolation that is at the same time connected with other people.

From Time

This early painting already has the unpeopled froideur that his critics complain of in his buildings.

And so to the unpeopled rooms of the little old Vermont farmhouse Peter's gentle thoughts ever swarmed, like homing bees.

Unless presently I could arise and kill meat for her, then must the world roll void through the ether, unpeopled ever more.

She walked along through that flat, almost unpeopled, half desert country and it seemed that the whole world had shrivelled up.

Before that it was an unpeopled rock in the Northern Sea, without name or history.

The Romans drew from this country, now nearly barren and unpeopled, immense contributions both in gold and wheat.

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