UNINHABITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninhabited mean? 

• UNINHABITED (adjective)
  The adjective UNINHABITED has 1 sense:

1. not having inhabitants; not lived in

  Familiarity information: UNINHABITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINHABITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having inhabitants; not lived in

Context example:

gaping doors of uninhabited houses

Similar:

abandoned; derelict; deserted (forsaken by owner or inhabitants)

depopulated (having lost inhabitants as by war or disease)

unoccupied; untenanted (not leased to or occupied by a tenant)

unpeopled; unpopulated (with no people living there)

lonely; solitary; unfrequented (devoid of creatures)

unsettled (not yet settled)

Antonym:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

Altogether, we’ll have our hands full if we find the island uninhabited.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season to shoot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A collective generic term that refers here to a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states.

(CDISC SDTM Country Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Oh! yes—I do not think I should be easily frightened, because there would be so many people in the house—and besides, it has never been uninhabited and left deserted for years, and then the family come back to it unawares, without giving any notice, as generally happens.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It is, as I have said, a labyrinth of an old house, especially the original wing, which is now practically uninhabited; but we ransacked every room and cellar without discovering the least sign of the missing man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My design was, if possible, to discover some small island uninhabited, yet sufficient, by my labour, to furnish me with the necessaries of life, which I would have thought a greater happiness, than to be first minister in the politest court of Europe; so horrible was the idea I conceived of returning to live in the society, and under the government of Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)