untenanted
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8.1
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtɛn.tɪd/
- The old factory has been untenanted for years, making it a perfect spot for urban explorers.
Examples
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Below them, the mountains shone jagged and white, clean and untenanted.
Fiction book (1999) -
They drove past an untenanted house, its windows boarded up and garden overgrown.
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And why have they stood so long untenanted?
Fiction book (2001) -
They found an untenanted spot.
Fiction book (1990) -
But there were also more untenanted offices and empty P296.
Fiction book (1996) -
Leases near the Plaza were at a premium, yet the shop had gone untenanted since either of them could remember.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Neal house looked untenanted despite the light shining through drawn drapes.
Fiction book (1994) -
A pregnant tension held them at bay, their verdict undermined in the dismal surroundings of this untenanted warehouse.
Fiction book (1991) -
After the last tenant left, the apartment remained untenanted for several months while the landlord looked for a new renter.
Synonyms
110
2.6
Not occupied by anyone, for example a seat or job
13
3.4
Empty and not used by anyone
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6.1
No one rents or lives in it
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4.8
Not claimed or used by anyone
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3.7
A space that has no paying tenant
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6.6
Not lived in or visited by people
Antonyms
Compounds
How Occupied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untenanted breaks into un- meaning 'not' and tenant, a person who 'holds' or lives in a house. Because tenant comes from a root meaning 'to hold', untenanted literally means 'not held', so it describes a place that is empty or vacant.