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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfurnished
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a furnished/unfurnished apartment (=with or without furniture)
▪ a luxurious two-bedroomed unfurnished apartment situated in the heart of town
a furnished/unfurnished flat (=a rented flat that does or does not have furniture)
▪ She found a job and a furnished flat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third of local authority dwellings lack any central heating, as does 64% of unfurnished privately rented accommodation.
▪ Down, down, down Route 77, and this gradually becomes an unfurnished planet.
▪ He even gave budgets for the plans showing the total costs of the proposed houses, furnished or unfurnished and with gardens.
▪ She has two children aged four and two years, and lives in a privately rented unfurnished flat.
▪ The decision may be challenged on the ground that the building in question was unfurnished.
▪ The quintas were let for the season, either furnished or unfurnished.
▪ The room was bare and filthy, an unfurnished twin to theirs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfurnished

1540s, "not equipped, unprepared," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of furnish (v.). In reference to houses, apartments, etc., "not provided with furniture," it is recorded from 1580s.

Wiktionary
unfurnished

a. Not furnished; having no furnishing.

WordNet
unfurnished

adj. not equipped with what is needed especially furniture; "an unfurnished apartment" [syn: unequipped] [ant: furnished]

Usage examples of "unfurnished".

The single large room was unfurnished save for a crazy table, three wooden boxes, which might be used as seats, and a great pile of decayed fishing-net in the corner.

And he passed us into the huge tent, which was unfurnished, save for a row of wooden benches round the sides.

Women or guns with such, and those unfurnished, cannot pass the barrier.

Dick singularly bare and unfurnished, mother and son went out for a drive, in one of the carriages belonging to the hotel.

Rajbullub, you have done wonders--that is, if the house was unfurnished, yesterday.

Sir Los shut the door with a faint boom that echoed through the stark, unfurnished antechamber.

Everything about the lighthouse was right--from the fact that it was a short ten minutes from the children, the office, and the store, to the fact that it was the perfect size, to the fact that it was unoccupied, unfurnished, and in need of little more than cosmetics to aid its charm.

The room was empty and unfurnished, with the exception of a dilapidated stove which stood against the partition separating this room from the one the young lady had entered.

The ground floors and the upper stories of each were unfurnished and deserted, the broken windows covered by decaying shutters.

The owners had hastily moved and the unfurnished rooms echoed hollowly to the sound of voices and the shuffling of feet.

The apartment stank, the place was virtually unfurnished and roaches roamed the floor boldlyeven now, in the diffuse noon light bleeding in through the greasy windows.

Guardians unfurnished this room some time ago, and we have a certain shortage of chairs.

The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.

The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.

It was unfurnished except for a smooth, cylindric pedestal holding a glimmering golden dish of oil.