UNOCCUPIED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

unoccupied

adjective

Definition of unoccupied

as in vacant

not being used, filled up, or lived in an unoccupied house About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started. A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.

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Recent Examples of unoccupied But today a quick accounting shows the Plaza’s occupancies are slightly better than holding steady, with 28% of its 151 storefronts unoccupied. — Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026 The force of that impact knocked a tire off the Colorado, sending it flying into an unoccupied Turtle Creek police car and smashing through the back window. — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 Wait until the plane is fully boarded and everyone has settled into their seats before jumping into an unoccupied seat. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026 Officers arrived to find multiple shell casings and an unoccupied vehicle that had been struck multiple times by gunfire. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unoccupied

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In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with more than 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar.

— Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with over 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of vacant

Adjective

On the day Hoosier fans celebrated last year’s 2025 national championship run inside Memorial Stadium, the stands grew increasingly empty as the season-opener against North Texas wore on.

— Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
That would make the construction of small apartment or condo buildings less expensive, helping developers fill Chicago’s empty lots with units that are also affordable, said Ald.

— Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of empty

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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
The phone was deliberately dropped over uninhabited terrain to reduce any risk to people on the ground.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

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