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# uninhabited

«uninhabited» in Mova's school dictionary: **With no people living there** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (uninhabited)

### meaning for a pupil

1) With no people living there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#m1)

2) With no animals or living things living there (less common). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and stories it describes islands, deserts, planets or houses where nobody lives. It tells the reader a place is empty, lonely or wild. Phrases: an uninhabited island, an uninhabited house.

### examples

- The sailors were shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x1)
- Much of Antarctica is uninhabited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x2)
- The old farmhouse has been uninhabited for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x3)
- Scientists think the Moon is uninhabited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x4)
- They explored an uninhabited valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x5)
- The rocket landed on an uninhabited planet in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x6)
- He very soon found that Squirrel Island was uninhabited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/#x7)

### note

Trap: «inhabited» means people live there, and «uninhabited» means nobody does; but «inhabitable» (can be lived in) and «uninhabitable» (cannot be lived in) are different words. Not countable; it is an adjective.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «uninhabited» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uninhabited/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.