furnished

[ fur-nisht ]

adjective

1. (of an apartment, room, or house) available to be rented with furniture:

   furnished summer sublets; a furnished bedroom in a remodeled condo.

Other Words From

• half-furnished adjective
• self-furnished adjective
• semi·furnished adjective
• un·furnished adjective
• well-furnished adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of furnished¹

First recorded in 1700–10; past participle of furnish ( def )

Example Sentences

We ended up in one room in her mansion and never furnished it.

From The Daily Beast

He continued to live in Greenwich Village in an apartment furnished principally with books and empty orange crates.

From The Daily Beast

He sits in dark corners of the narrative, a bit inanimate, like a broken chair marring a finely furnished room.

From The Daily Beast

For two years Malcolm visited Salle in his coldly lit, barely furnished studio on White Street in Tribeca.

From The Daily Beast

There was still no disputing the answer Bloomberg furnished to the question he then posed.

From The Daily Beast

But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.

From Project Gutenberg

And when he took an underground stroll he was almost sure to find a few angleworms, which furnished most of his meals.

From Project Gutenberg

The room was prettily furnished, and Georgie had often accused herself of extravagance.

From Project Gutenberg

The regulation chairs and tables of the furnished house had been banished from Mrs. Haggard's drawing-room.

From Project Gutenberg

Amerigo Vespucci sailed with three ships furnished him by Emanuel of Portugal.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• equipped