untrafficked
7.6
Free from cars and people
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtræfɪkt/
:
desierto
- They enjoyed lunch at an untrafficked beach away from the crowds.
Examples
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I led them to an untrafficked corner.
Fiction book (1999) -
The hikers found a peaceful path through an untrafficked forest.
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The painter set up her easel in an untrafficked area of the park.
Synonyms
2
8.3
Free and not limited by rules
applies specifically to being unused by people or vehicles
1
6.3
A path or area that no one has visited
is about being free from movement by people or vehicles
untracked
vsuntrafficked
1
7.7
A place where there are no paths or roads and very few people have been
highlights freedom from traffic rather than just lack of tracks
9.9
A place that no one has walked on
is about absence of any traffic from people or vehicles
How Busy
Surface Forms
untrafficked positive
untraffickedly positive
Morphology
untrafficked = trafficked (transparent) = un + traffic + ed
Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'trafficked' (traffic + -ed); meaning 'not used by traffic' follows regular morphological logic.
Etymology
Untrafficked is made of un- and traffic, and traffic also means the movement of cars or people. So untrafficked can mean 'not used or traveled by vehicles or people', like a quiet, empty road or trail.