Uninhabited Meaning
/ˌʌn.ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tɪd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot inhabited; having no inhabitants.
adjNot having a term.
Sentence Examples
He hopes to explore the uninhabited island.
He wants to explore the uninhabited island.
Sami was marooned on a remote and uninhabited island.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The remote island has been ____ for centuries due to its lack of fresh water sources.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers finally reached the ____ island, where they found many new species of birds and several plants today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English inhabited English uninhabited From un- + inhabited.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"This is not a contradiction since an uninhabited type has no complete terms and a probability distribution over an empty type is ill defined anyway."
— 2017, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo, editors, Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics, Springer, →ISBN, page 282:
"Unlike Null, Nothing has no instances. We say the type is uninhabited."
— [2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 13, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The remote island has been ____ for centuries due to its lack of fresh water sources.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers finally reached the ____ island, where they found many new species of birds and several plants today.