unfrequented

[ uhn-free-kwuhn-tid, -fri-kwen- ]

adjective

1. not habitually visited, traveled, or occupied:

   an unfrequented side street.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfrequented¹

First recorded in 1580–90; un- ¹ + frequent ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Not only is the movie deeply rooted in a female and Asian-North American perspective, it wades into a chapter of life unfrequented by Pixar.

From Washington Times

But I alighted at the Halfway House, and breakfasted there, and walked the rest of the distance; for I sought to get into the town quietly by the unfrequented ways, and to leave it in the same manner.

From Literature

Researchers found the best snow samples in unfrequented areas of Antarctica, of which there are many.

From Washington Post

According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.”

From New York Times

There would be the time when they would go up Carmel Hill and down into the Valley, a good four miles on a main highway, exposed to any passing cop until they turned up the fairly unfrequented Carmel Valley road.

From Literature