Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no furniture, especially when available to be rented.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not furnished; not supplied with furnishings or furniture of any kind; unsupplied; unequipped: as, an unfurnished house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not equipped with what is needed especially furniture
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Examples
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They were plain, ugly, square, unfurnished rooms, here a big one, and there a little one, as is usual in most houses; — unfurnished, that is, for the most part.
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My parents having gone, it became necessary for me to find lodgings -- which I did, "unfurnished," in the house of a Portuguese widow.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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A few nights later, he will stand in an unfurnished living room that smells of roasted pork chops and discuss the end of a relationship.
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It being plain that as a poor young man with a family I could rent no houses at all in this most undesirable region, I next looked for rooms, unfurnished rooms, in which I could store my wife and babies and chattels.
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A few nights later, he will stand in an unfurnished living room that smells of roasted pork chops and discuss the end of a relationship.
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Once inside the grubby, unfurnished studio with no view, we discovered how paper-thin the walls were when we heard a couple beneath us engaged in a raging domestic.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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They meet to have anonymous, no-strings-attached sex in a mostly unfurnished, run-down apartment.
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"We just wanted to know if there is any other cabin around here," he said, at the same time glancing over the unfurnished state of the room.
A DAY'S LODGING 2010
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I had been doing this for six years, and I realized I could easily turn around five years from now and still be in the office and my apartment would still be unfurnished.
Betting Big on Recycling Riva Richmond 2011
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Once inside the grubby, unfurnished studio with no view, we discovered how paper-thin the walls were when we heard a couple beneath us engaged in a raging domestic.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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