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 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 García failed to make the scoop — his glove fell off on the play — picked up the loose ball, and then fired to an unoccupied third base. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 The pedestrian was hit by an SUV driver (doing 35mph in the 30mph zone, not uncommon speeding for Texas) and his body thrown over 30 feet into the oncoming lane, where an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi was traveling. — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unoccupied

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Adjective

Per the current listing, the site is now vacant and shovel-ready for building out a seven-bedroom, seven-plus-bath behemoth, all connected by a private elevator.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026
The vacant 113,464-square-foot building sits at the northeast corner of Bowes Road and South McLean Boulevard.

— Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of vacant

Adjective

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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unofficial

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