overpopulated
Speech parts
1. overpopulated - Adjective
2. overpopulated - Verb
Meaning
overpopulated
simple past and past participle of overpopulate
overpopulated (comparative more overpopulated, superlative most overpopulated)
Having or consisting of a higher population than can be sustained.
Synonyms: overpeopled, overpopulous
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Examples
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.
By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated.
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
Basel had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources.
A water tank for washing hands stands in front of a municipal center in West Point, Liberia's most impoverished and overpopulated community, which was hard hit by the Ebola outbreak.
A couple decades back, sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson sketched out a future utopia on Mars built by scientists from an overpopulated, overextended Earth.