Meanings
- Having inhabitants; lived in.
Synonyms: peopled, populated, tenanted · Antonyms: uninhabited, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate, disinhabited, inhabitantless
- mathematicsContaining at least one element.
- type theoryHaving a term.
It is, however, certainly desirable that the above type is inhabited, […]
2012, Martin Hofmann, Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 57Antonyms: uninhabited
- obsoleteObsolete form of uninhabited.
Others[…]have frequented desarts and inhabited provinces.
1614, Richard Brathwait, A Survey of History1 more example
We met no one on the road, but presently began to pass deserted farms in varying stages of ruin. Then I noticed a few inhabited houses with rags stuffed in the broken windows and shells and dead fish lying about the littered yards.
1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over InnsmouthSynonyms: deserted, peopleless, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate, disinhabited
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving inhabitants; lived in.
adjectiveHaving a term.
adjectiveObsolete form of uninhabited.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving inhabitants; lived in
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian обита́ем
- обита́ем (obitáem)having inhabitants
Chinese Mandarin 有人居住的
- 有人居住的 (yǒurén jūzhù de)having inhabitants
Dutch bewoond
- bewoondhaving inhabitants
Finnish asuttu
- asuttuhaving inhabitants
French habité
- habitéhaving inhabitants
German bewohnt
- bewohnthaving inhabitants
Greek κατοικούμενος
- κατοικούμενος (katoikoúmenos)having inhabitants
Hungarian lakott, emberlakta
- lakotthaving inhabitants
- emberlaktahaving inhabitants
Italian abitato
- abitatohaving inhabitants
Polish zamieszkany, zamieszkały
- zamieszkanyhaving inhabitants
- zamieszkałyhaving inhabitants
Portuguese habitado
- habitadohaving inhabitants
Russian обита́емый, населённый
- обита́емый (obitájemyj)having inhabitants
- населённый (naseljónnyj)having inhabitants
- заселённый (zaseljónnyj)having inhabitants
Spanish habitado, afumado
- habitadohaving inhabitants
- afumadohaving inhabitants
Swedish bebodd
- beboddhaving inhabitants
Ukrainian насе́лений, засе́лений
- насе́лений (nasélenyj)having inhabitants
- засе́лений (zasélenyj)having inhabitants
Cite this entry
inhabited. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhabited
“inhabited.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhabited. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inhabited,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhabited.
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