unneighbouredunneighboredadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈneɪbəd/, U.S. /ˌənˈneɪbərd/ Without neighbours; remote, isolated.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective]
onlyOE
alonec1175
solitarya1340
lone1377
ledelessc1400
fellowless?c1425
savage1535
neighbourless1550
private1599
discompanied1601
unattended1603
disaccompanied1605
lonelya1616
marrowless?1635
companionless1644
unneighboured1657
unaccompanied1709
unescorted1774
uncompanioned1822
comradeless1891
1657 Bp. H. King Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonnets 124 Making a dearth Of all inhabitants, untill they stand Unneighbour'd, as unblest.
1704 T. D'Urfey Tales 180 Homely, un-neighbour'd, and alone.
a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey vi, in tr. Homer Iliad & Odyssey (1802) III. 157 An unneighbour'd isle, And far from all resort of busy man.
1825 ‘M. O'Tara’ Thomas Fitz-Gerald I. i. 46 In total solitude, and unneighboured by any thing like itself.
1882 C. F. Keary Outl. Primitive Belief x. 508 The baron in his castle alone, unneighboured save for purposes of war.
1919 A. Gray Tedious Brief Tales of Granta & Gramarye 14 Badcoke..lived a recluse in his unneighboured room.
1977 J. McPhee Coming into Country iii. 292 He would have liked to build somewhere else..in an unneighbored place he could call his own.
2005 R. Annear City Lost & Found x. 159 On such a vast, unneighboured site, gentle handling and containment were not paramount.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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