inhabited
inhabited — adjective
1. describing a place where people or animals currently make their home, as opposed
describing a place where people or animals currently make their home, as opposed to an empty or abandoned one
Only three of the fifty small islands in the bay are still inhabited today.
be inhabited as a stative description of populated places
Tendai discovered that the old farmhouse was inhabited by a family of barn owls.
passive: be inhabited by [animals/people]
The cabin had not been inhabited for almost forty years and smelled of damp wood.
Anya grew up in a quiet, sparsely inhabited valley near the Romanian border.
The team mapped every inhabited village along the river before the dam was built.
- uninhabited
direct antonym; no people or animals living there
- deserted
previously inhabited but now empty
- abandoned
deliberately left by former inhabitants
文法句型
an inhabited [place]
be inhabited (by + noun)
用法筆記
Frequently passive (be inhabited by) or modified by an adverb of density (sparsely, densely, thinly). Subject is almost always a place noun: island, village, building, region.
常見錯誤
inhabited — verb
1. the past tense and past participle of 'inhabit'; used when describing who or wha
the past tense and past participle of 'inhabit'; used when describing who or what once made a particular place their home
Nomadic herders inhabited these grasslands long before the first roads were built.
subject + inhabited + place; historical / past use
Christopher learned that monks had inhabited the small stone chapel for over six centuries.
past perfect: had inhabited [place] for [duration]
Giant tortoises once inhabited every beach on the island before the sailors arrived.
Romi explained that several artists had inhabited the loft above her grandmother's bakery.
The fishing families who inhabited these coastal villages moved inland after the storm.
文法句型
[subject] inhabited [place]
用法筆記
Takes a direct object (the place) — never a preposition between 'inhabited' and the place. Subject is typically people, communities, or animals; object is a place noun (island, region, building, forest).