tenantless

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English tenant

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English tenantless

From tenant + -less.

Adjective

tenantless (comparative more tenantless, superlative most tenantless)

1. Lacking a tenant; unoccupied.

   Synonyms: untenanted, vacant; see also Thesaurus:uninhabited

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     The extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a misty horizon.

Derived terms

• tenantlessness

Anagrams

• latentness