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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uninhabited
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uninhabited (=one where nobody lives)
▪ There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
island
▪ The two seek refuge on an uninhabited island.
▪ The new airport was to be built at Chek Lap Kok, a largely uninhabited island north of Lantau island.
▪ It turns the fan at a public toilet on an uninhabited island in Boston Harbor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Access to this remote uninhabited Himalayan mountain is via high snow-covered passes.
▪ an uninhabited island
▪ Most of the islands in Clear Bay are uninhabited.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both groups need to leave and are intending to settle on a previously uninhabited planet.
▪ Laxford Bridge is a welcome uninhabited oasis amongst shaggy surroundings.
▪ Offshore, there's a maze of islands, many uninhabited.
▪ One can feel responsibility without feeling love, otherwise the world would be uninhabited.
▪ The centre is vast and uninhabited.
▪ The land, relentlessly monotone in all but a few summer weeks of feverish flowering, is almost uninhabited.
▪ The two seek refuge on an uninhabited island.
▪ Victorine Meurent lived in another system of reference, in a narrative as yet unformulated and uncodified, but not uninhabited.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uninhabited

1570s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of inhabit (v.).

Wiktionary
uninhabited

a. not inhabited; having no inhabitants

WordNet
uninhabited

adj. not having inhabitants; not lived in; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses" [ant: inhabited]

Wikipedia
Uninhabited (film)

Uninhabited is a 2010 Australian horror film directed by Bill Bennett. The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and in Australia during the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival. It tells the story of a young couple vacationing at a deserted island, later discovering it has a disturbing history.

Usage examples of "uninhabited".

She had had a houseful of guests or had gone to other, uninhabited islands.

This rainy and mosquito-ridden labyrinth of mangrove islands and dark tidal rivers was all but uninhabited, despite the marvelous abundance of its fish and game.

There we rested a fortnight, and then started out into the trackless and uninhabited forest of a vast district called Elgumi.

The village of junked cars was especially odd, because farther on was a hillside of uninhabited housesprobably a quarantine order, or a subzone in the making.

Chapter 6 The inventory of the articles possessed by these castaways from the clouds, thrown upon a coast which appeared to be uninhabited, was soon made out.

When I crossed the high plateau and its border ridge, the Great Khingan, on my way from Transbaikalia to Merghen, and further travelled over the high prairies on my way to the Amur, I could ascertain how thinly-peopled with fallow deer these mostly uninhabited regions are.

The patch of road appeared to be uninhabited, without the shabbiest beerhouse to cheer it.

So cleverly had this been accomplished that none of the Czarist agents in Moscow had even begun to suspect that the uninhabited place differed in any way from similar houses.

The crippled Sealon attack craft, left behind in a low orbit when its two companions had raised their altitudes and shifted to polar orbits, had long since succumbed to drag, spiraling ever lower until it deorbited and screamed down through the atmosphere, a brilliant fireball, its remains impacting on a large, uninhabited island near the equator.

In some ways-the rocks and grass, the uninhabited distances, the dearth of trees-this territory reminds me of that other seagirt land of evil memory, to which I was brought by Frankenstein and by his mentor Saville, a man more evil than himself, to be their slave, their accomplice, their companion-it would take a long list of words to exhaust all the possibilities of what I was to them at one time and another.

The sea was, as far as anyone knew, uninhabited and islandless, situated in the midst of a remote and hostile and uninhabited wilderness that bordered upon the far western terminus of the Plains of Haratha.

The two Johns were good friends, their relationship cemented by drugs, including one legendary week-long acid trip during which they visited an uninhabited island off the west coast of Ireland that Lennon happened to have bought after seeing it advertised as for sale by auction.

It was marked as uninhabited and waterless, and the soundings showed a number of deep channels through the reefs around it.

It could only light a loft, inhabited or uninhabited, above some rooms in the palace, the doors of which would probably be opened by day-break.

All through Todos Santos the Security people would be moving quietly into place, just in case there were more to this attack than just three intruders in uninhabited areas.