Unoccupied vs Untenanted - What's the difference?
unoccupied | untenanted |
(of a house etc) Not inhabited, especially by a tenant
Not being used; vacant or free
Not employed on a task; idle
(of territory) Not occupied by foreign troops etc
Not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.
* 1842: Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
*:The house looked as though it had been long untenanted . The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.
As adjectives the difference between unoccupied and untenanted
is that unoccupied is not inhabited, especially by a tenant while untenanted is not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.unoccupied
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(en adjective)untenanted
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(-)- ... a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.