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

Examples of uninhabited in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The uninhabited island is located in the middle of the Mona Passage, a strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Six goats—with names like Gilligan and MacLovin'—nibble on the leaves of bush honeysuckle and English ivy, clearing some of the invasive plant species that have choked out the native flora that once flourished on the uninhabited island. — Daliah Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026

The yacht took the party to Sazan, a nearly uninhabited island off the Albanian coast. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Biscayne 21, now an uninhabited shell, sits on a bayfront slice of Edgewater, a high-end residential neighborhood just north of downtown Miami. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1571, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for uninhabited

• cohabited
• inhabited
• habited