unpeopled

[ uhn-pee-puh ld ]

/ ʌnˈpi pəld /

without people; uninhabited.

Origin of unpeopled

1580–90; un-¹ + peopled

unpeople

[ uhn-pee-puh l ]

/ ʌnˈpi pəl /

to deprive of people; depopulate.

First recorded in 1525–35; un-² + people

This early painting already has the unpeopled froideur that his critics complain of in his buildings.

Le Corbusier's Ouija Board |Blake Gopnik |July 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Our feelings may be imagined, at seeing the mangled bodies of people of our own race in these remote and unpeopled prairies.

Early Western Travels 1748-1846 |Various
All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the line of unpeopled rocks.

Malbone |Thomas Wentworth Higginson
If they rode alone, they felt none of that loneliness which is so integral a part of the still, unpeopled places.

North of Fifty-Three |Bertrand W. Sinclair

The stillness around me seemed awful, and the clatter of my animal's small shoe sounded far away in the unpeopled solitude.

rminius Vambry, his life and adventures |rminius Vambry
Afterwards he had ranged the city like a prairie wolf, ranged it as though it had been an unpeopled desert, free to his stride.

The Branding Iron |Katharine Newlin Burt

unpeople

/ (ʌnˈpiːpəl) /

(tr) to empty of people