unfrequented

English

Etymology

un- +‎ frequented

Adjective

unfrequented (comparative more unfrequented, superlative most unfrequented)

1. Not frequented.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
     I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 15, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 8, page 182:

     As my Walks are all by Night, I am pretty secure in this wild, and unfrequented Place from meeting any Company.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 126, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 577:

     Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.

   • 1940 October, Mercury, “American Travel in 1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 536:

     Leaving Washington at 7 a.m., it reached Portland [Maine] at 6.10 p.m., the 570 miles thus taking 11 hr. 10 min., and requiring an overall average of 51.0 m.p.h. including stops and the use of both congested main lines and an unfrequented cross-country line from Worcester onwards.

   • 1999 January 21, Alan Bennett, “What I did in 1998”, in London Review of Books, volume 21, number 2:

     The stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.