unpeopled

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adjective

un·​peo·​pled ˌən-ˈpē-pəld How to pronounce unpeopled (audio)
Synonyms of unpeoplednext
: not filled with or occupied by people
an unpeopled wilderness

unpeopled

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past tense and past participle of unpeople

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Alaska has giant swaths of unpeopled country with no twirling weather radars, or none that can see beyond where mountains are blocking them. — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022 The emptiness and silence of his childhood reproduce themselves in the unpeopled landscapes through which his characters wander. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021 Hopper often produces the unease even in unpeopled landscapes and views of buildings, as if catching nature and habitation defenselessly exposed in disarray, mundanity, or squalor. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020 But finding unpeopled streetscapes is harder said than done in a city like New York or Tokyo. — Michael Hardy, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

circa 1586, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unpeopled was circa 1586

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