Meanings
- not comparableNot inhabited by people.
I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC1 more example
Still, one mansion, which the time ought to have unpeopled, was evidently inhabited; and in one of its rooms—small, but luxurious enough for a sultana in the Arabian Nights, or a young gentleman of the present day—were seated two persons in earnest conversation.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105Synonyms: peopleless, uninhabited, unpopulated, beingless, desert, deserted, howling, desolate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot inhabited by people.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewith no people living there
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-
- Englishpeopled
- Englishunpeopled
Cite this entry
unpeopled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpeopled
“unpeopled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpeopled. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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