MEANING
Seldom visited or traveled through.
Use it for
Low footfall; unnoticed meeting places; routes outside habitual trafficCreate privacy through lack of visitors rather than physical barriers.
Words that belong together
- unfrequented path
- unfrequented quarter
- unfrequented corner
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They met in an unfrequented corner of the public gardens.
The once-popular shopping arcade had become unfrequented after the station moved.
An unfrequented route offered discretion but no one to ask for directions.
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Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Relatively uncommon, often literary. Says little about whether anyone lives there; unfrequented is not the same as uninhabited. Usually non-gradable; less frequented is more natural than more unfrequented.
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