Meanings
- not comparableNot inhabited; having no inhabitants.
Synonyms: inhabitantless, peopleless, uninhabitated · Antonyms: inhabited
- not comparabletype theoryNot having a term.
Unlike Null, Nothing has no instances. We say the type is uninhabited.
[2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 13, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN1 more example
This is not a contradiction since an uninhabited type has no complete terms and a probability distribution over an empty type is ill defined anyway.
2017, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo, editors, Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics, Springer, →ISBN, page 282Antonyms: inhabited
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot inhabited; having no inhabitants.
adjectiveNot having a term.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot having inhabitants; not lived in
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishinhabited
- Englishuninhabited
Translations
Bulgarian необита́ван, незаселен
- необита́ван (neobitávan)not inhabited
- незаселен (nezaselen)not inhabited
Catalan inhabitat, deshabitat
- inhabitatnot inhabited
- deshabitatnot inhabited
- despoblatnot inhabited
Chinese Mandarin 無人 /无人
- 無人 /无人 (wúrén)not inhabited
Czech neobydlený
- neobydlenýnot inhabited
Danish ubeboet
- ubeboetnot inhabited
Dutch onbewoond
- onbewoondnot inhabited
Finnish asumaton
- asumatonnot inhabited
French inhabité
- inhabiténot inhabited
German unbewohnt
- unbewohntnot inhabited
Greek ακατοίκητος
- ακατοίκητος (akatoíkitos)not inhabited
Hungarian lakatlan
- lakatlannot inhabited
Italian disabitato
- disabitatonot inhabited
Japanese 無人
- 無人not inhabited
Korean 무인의
- 무인의 (mu'inui)not inhabited
Māori tāngatakore
- tāngatakorenot inhabited
Norwegian Bokmål ubebodd
- ubeboddnot inhabited
Polish niezamieszkany, bezludny
- niezamieszkanynot inhabited
- bezludnynot inhabited
Portuguese inabitado, desabitado
- inabitadonot inhabited
- desabitadonot inhabited
Romanian deșert, nepopulat
- deșertnot inhabited
- nepopulatnot inhabited
- nelocuitnot inhabited
Russian необита́емый, безлю́дный
- необита́емый (neobitájemyj)not inhabited
- безлю́дный (bezljúdnyj)not inhabited
- ненаселённый (nenaseljónnyj)not inhabited
- незаселённый (nezaseljónnyj)not inhabited
Spanish deshabitado, abandonado
- deshabitadonot inhabited
- abandonadonot inhabited
- inhabitadonot inhabited
Swedish obebodd
- obeboddnot inhabited
Ukrainian ненасе́лений, незасе́лений
- ненасе́лений (nenasélenyj)not inhabited
- незасе́лений (nezasélenyj)not inhabited
- безлю́дний (bezljúdnyj)not inhabited
Cite this entry
uninhabited. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninhabited
“uninhabited.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninhabited. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uninhabited,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninhabited.
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