Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a house etc English) Not inhabited, especially by a tenant 2 Not being used; vacant or free 3 Not employed on a task; idle 4 (context of territory English) Not occupied by foreign troops etc
WordNet
adj. not held or filled or in use; "an unoccupied telephone booth"; "unoccupied hours" [ant: occupied]
not seized and controlled; "unoccupied areas of France" [ant: occupied]
not leased to or occupied by a tenant; "an unoccupied apartment"; "very little unclaimed and untenanted land" [syn: untenanted]
Usage examples of "unoccupied".
When a sensitive person receives clairvoyance or clairaudience, or anyone has a psychic experience, the consciousness must be unoccupied by physical thought or sensation to permit its reception of the spirit experience.
The nearest office was unoccupied, so they went in, and Dobson shut the door.
They could not understand the man who was capable, in opening a cabinet meeting, of reading to his secretaries a funny chapter from a recent book of Artemus Ward, with which in an unoccupied moment he had relieved his careburdened mind, and who then solemnly informed the executive council that he had vowed in his heart to issue a proclamation emancipating the slaves as soon as God blessed the Union arms with another victory.
I sat unoccupied, they would brood with melancholy fixedness on I know not what.
You or any one else can send in a tender for all unoccupied land between the boundaries of Banya and Gol Gol, Lower Warroo.
Tours is incapable of rallying the unoccupied parts of France to the support of our new republic.
Main Gateharsh black iron and dark leather amidst streams of saturated coloursthe troop swung right, rode a short distance down the south caravan road, then left it and its traffic as soon as they reached open plain, riding due west, past the few goat, cattle and sheep farms and their low stone walls breaking up the landscape, out onto unoccupied prairie.
His farm remained unoccupied, for while an acre of land could be obtained in any other quarter, no man would enter upon such unhallowed premises.
We found over a hundred unoccupied worlds which we opened to Allegiancy colonization.
Those attributing the reduced appearance to the lesser angle occupied allow by their very theory that the unoccupied portion of the eye still sees something beyond or something quite apart from the object of vision, if only air-space.
My tender had been accepted for whatever unoccupied land lay between the boundaries of Banya and Gol Gol runs.
Nor do I believe that any great physical change, as of climate, or any unusual degree of isolation to check immigration, is actually necessary to produce new and unoccupied places for natural selection to fill up by modifying and improving some of the varying inhabitants.
He did not know the names or purposes of many of the machines in the sternmost section, which was unoccupied and cut off from the rest of the hull by triple bulkheads.
Cay Habitat had a televiewer, Leo discovered to his delight, and furthermore it was unoccupied at the moment.
And then it is only fair to believe that Hawthorne was interested in the experiment, and that though he was not a Transcendentalist, an Abolitionist, or a Fourierite, as his companions were in some degree or other likely to be, he was willing, as a generous and unoccupied young man, to lend a hand in any reasonable scheme for helping people to live together on better terms than the common.