uninhabited
adjective
un·in·hab·it·ed
ˌən-in-ˈha-bə-təd 
: not occupied or lived in by people : not inhabited
an uninhabited island/house
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The others landed in an uninhabited stretch of Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast.
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Intrepid types who truly seek solitude may also want to consider the Highlands—the uninhabited center of the island.
—Ali Wunderman, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
China seized the uninhabited atoll – 870 km (540 miles) from its southernmost province of Hainan – in 2012 after a long standoff with the Philippine Navy, and has maintained an almost constant coast guard presence in nearby waters since.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Billy Zane stars as Marlon Brando—a role he was born to play, look at him—in Bill Fishman’s adaptation of a memoir by architect Bernard Judge, whom Brando hired to build a compound on an uninhabited island in Tahiti in the ’70s.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Intrepid types who truly seek solitude may also want to consider the Highlands—the uninhabited center of the island.
—Ali Wunderman, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
China seized the uninhabited atoll – 870 km (540 miles) from its southernmost province of Hainan – in 2012 after a long standoff with the Philippine Navy, and has maintained an almost constant coast guard presence in nearby waters since.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Billy Zane stars as Marlon Brando—a role he was born to play, look at him—in Bill Fishman’s adaptation of a memoir by architect Bernard Judge, whom Brando hired to build a compound on an uninhabited island in Tahiti in the ’70s.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Uninhabited.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uninhabited. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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