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UNFURNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfurnished mean? 

UNFURNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective UNFURNISHED has 1 sense:

1. not equipped with what is needed especially furnitureplay

  Familiarity information: UNFURNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNFURNISHED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not equipped with what is needed especially furniture

Context example:

an unfurnished apartment

Antonym:

furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))


 Context examples 


It is a considerable house, unfurnished, so far as I could judge, in the upper rooms.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"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.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Salem House was a square brick building with wings; of a bare and unfurnished appearance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A voice within bade us enter, and we entered a bare, unfurnished room such as Hall Pycroft had described.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season to shoot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Most of the rooms were unfurnished, but none the less Holmes inspected them all minutely.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The room in question was of a commodious, well-proportioned size, and handsomely fitted up as a dining-parlour; and on their quitting it to walk round the grounds, she was shown, first into a smaller apartment, belonging peculiarly to the master of the house, and made unusually tidy on the occasion; and afterwards into what was to be the drawing-room, with the appearance of which, though unfurnished, Catherine was delighted enough even to satisfy the general.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Arrived at this house in Windsor Terrace (which I noticed was shabby like himself, but also, like himself, made all the show it could), he presented me to Mrs. Micawber, a thin and faded lady, not at all young, who was sitting in the parlour (the first floor was altogether unfurnished, and the blinds were kept down to delude the neighbours), with a baby at her breast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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