单词 | uninhabited |
释义 | uninhabited (once / 2370 pages) adj WORD FAMILY inhabited: uninhabited+/inhabit: inhabitable, inhabitancy, inhabitant, inhabitation, inhabited, inhabiting, inhabits/inhabitable: uninhabitable/inhabitant: inhabitants/inhabitation: inhabitations/uninhabitable: uninhabitably USAGE EXAMPLESThe deal, announced in April, caused public uproar and protests by Egyptians who said the uninhabited islands of Tiran and Sanafir belonged to their country. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Coastguard vessels from both countries routinely shadow each other near the uninhabited islands which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) We spent three weeks filming on the uninhabited Galapagos island of Fernandina. The Guardian(Dec 11, 2016) adj not having inhabitants; not lived in an uninhabited island gaping doors of uninhabited houses Syn|Ant abandoned, derelict, deserted forsaken by owner or inhabitants depopulatedhaving lost inhabitants as by war or disease unoccupied, untenantednot leased to or occupied by a tenant unpeopled, unpopulatedwith no people living there lonely, solitary, unfrequenteddevoid of creatures unsettlednot yet settled inhabited having inhabitants; lived in colonised, colonized, settledinhabited by colonists hauntedinhabited by or as if by apparitions occupied, tenantedresided in; having tenants owner-occupiedlived in by the owner peopledfurnished with people populatedfurnished with inhabitants populous, thickly settleddensely populated rock-inhabitingof ferns and lichens that grow on rocks underpopulatedhaving a lower population density than normal or desirable |
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