Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Receiving few or no travelers or visitors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not frequented; seldom resorted to by human beings; solitary: as, an unfrequented place or forest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
frequented .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devoid of creatures
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Examples
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But it means simply that here in South Tyrol, within seventy-two hours of London, there may be found a large number of yet "untrodden peaks", and a network of valleys so literally "unfrequented" that we journeyed sometimes for days together without meeting a single traveller either in the inns or on the roads, and encountered only three parties of English during the whole time between entering the country on the Conegliano side and leaving it at Botzen.
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Jem had been on an errand for his master, instead of returning to his dinner; and in passing along a lane, a road (called, in compliment to the intentions of some future builder, a street), he encountered Harry Carson, the only person, as far as he saw, beside himself, treading the unfrequented path.
Mary Barton 2010
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PCVs are great hosts, I recommend them for visits to unfrequented locations.
Archive 2009-10-01 alexis 2009
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In those unfrequented waters the chance was one in a thousand that it could be anything else than a Russian patrol.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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PCVs are great hosts, I recommend them for visits to unfrequented locations.
The Fire Land: Aaron and Jordana in the 'Baij alexis 2009
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Against his better judgment, Daylight gave in, and, on an unfrequented stretch of road, changed saddles and bridles.
Chapter XIII 2010
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Nor did they ride on any save unfrequented roads, preferring to cross the second range of hills and travel among a church-going farmer folk who would scarcely have recognized even Daylight from his newspaper photographs.
Chapter XV 2010
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There are vast stretches of uninhabited or unfrequented beaches lounging serenely beside a roiling sea that stretches westward seemingly into infinity.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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There are vast stretches of uninhabited or unfrequented beaches lounging serenely beside a roiling sea that stretches westward seemingly into infinity.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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Maybe an hour and a half later, I am down the 401 towards one of the more unfrequented exits.
Crimson Sky and you. 2008
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