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Definition of "unpeopled" []

  • Uninhabited: unpeopled Arctic wastelands. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unpeopled" in a sentence
  • "The age-old "structures"—unpeopled ruins from India, Japan, Mexico and Scotland—appear contemporary because the photographs seem abstract."
  • "“Ten years ago the place where we are gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert,” he observed."
  • "But the most important and compelling details are in Arcimboldo's three reversible still lifes, when they're looked at as unpeopled kitchen scenes."