What's the difference between unpeopled and unpopulated?
Unpeopled
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Example Sentences:
(1) But that is an unfair comparison for the standard reasons: we are human beings who matter, while they are merely "unpeople", to borrow Orwell's useful phrase.
(2) In the decades since, there has been some slow repatriation, but many Faili remain caught, unpeople welcome nowhere.
(3) Most are landscapes of the panoramic open country spaces of the east Yorkshire wolds, many of them views – virtually all unpeopled – of the same spots painted through the seasons of the year.
(4) Letterman hosting the "Late Show" to an unpeopled Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday, as he did on Monday, was the oddest sight of the considerable and continuing cultural fallout of the hurricane that left New York institutions like Broadway, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center no more open for business than the city's damaged subway system.
Unpopulated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As kala-azar patients and dogs infected with visceral leishmaniasis are mostly in the area below 1,600 m sea level and the area above 2,000 m sea level is unpopulated, the natural infection of sandflies was thought, therefore, to come from wild animal hosts and the natural nidus of kala-azar there warrants further investigation.
(2) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(3) Around midnight, I woke to hear this driver declaring that she would try a shortcut down an old, unpopulated country road.
(4) Map: day 5 and 6 We may think of England as an urban country, dominated by people and roads but HS2’s route through the middle – Buckinghamshire, a smidgen of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire – has been plotted along a largely unpopulated fieldscape.
(5) 1 Make it pay to get cracking This is not all French hyperefficiency: the project is very different – mostly built on relatively flat, relatively unpopulated land alongside an existing motorway, with little tunnelling and no new stations.
(6) Mahmood Asakzai, the governor of Takht-e Pol district, where the helicopter came down, said the crash site, known as Charghai mountain, was remote and unpopulated by insurgents.
(7) Volatile halogenated organic chemicals are found in indoor and outdoor air, often at concentrations substantially above those in remote, unpopulated areas.
(8) Britain has consistently refused to say if, in respect to Diego Garcia, it recognises the UN convention against torture and the international convention on civil and political rights as the atoll is officially unpopulated.
(9) The island was unpopulated and almost completely under ice 20,000 years ago, but as the climate warmed, plants and animals moved across Doggerland, a now submerged land bridge that linked Britain to mainland Europe.
(10) The two have been in dispute over tiny unpopulated islands controlled by Japan but claimed by Beijing and known as the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan.
(11) Away from them, the interior is almost entirely unpopulated and hiking will allow you to savour the mysterious atmosphere that inspired John Fowles’ The Magus.
(12) Otherwise, they would have their activities confined to geographically demarcated airfields in relatively unpopulated areas that would be set aside specifically for the purpose.