UNPEOPLED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

unpeopled 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of unpeopled

as in uninhabited

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verb

past tense of unpeople

as in depopulated

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Alaska has giant swaths of unpeopled country with no twirling weather radars, or none that can see beyond where mountains are blocking them. — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022 The emptiness and silence of his childhood reproduce themselves in the unpeopled landscapes through which his characters wander. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021 Hopper often produces the unease even in unpeopled landscapes and views of buildings, as if catching nature and habitation defenselessly exposed in disarray, mundanity, or squalor. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020 But finding unpeopled streetscapes is harder said than done in a city like New York or Tokyo. — Michael Hardy, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020

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The first of these territories to be claimed were uninhabited islands, such as Howland Island in the southwestern Pacific and Navassa Island in the Caribbean, under the auspices of the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Researchers from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University embarked this month on the Taraia Object expedition in Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Phoenix Islands belonging to the Republic of Kiribati.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of uninhabited

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However, the lack of a hybrid option, the touchscreen-heavy climate controls, and the occasionally unsettled ride prevent the Atlas from separating itself from the pack.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
But instead of bringing unsettled weather, the offshore storm helped produce cloud-free skies from Maine to Florida.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unsettled

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