2. Adjective. Having a higher population than can be sustained in an area. ¹
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Definition of Overpopulated
1. overpopulate [v] - See also: overpopulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpopulated
Literary usage of Overpopulated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original Thirteen by Bartlett, Ellen Strong, Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, Holmes, Frank R, Morgan, Forrest, b. 1852, Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844- (1904)
"... BY the middle of the eighteenth century, Connecticut had begun to feel
overpopulated. Bancroft estimates its population at this time as 133000; ..."
2. The Mastery of the Pacific by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1902)
"There are those who, arguing from the stand-still condition of China's trade,
maintain that China is a poor country and that she is overpopulated. ..."
3. Social Problems in Porto Rico by Fred K. Fleagle (1917)
"OVERPOPULATION WHEN we say that a country is overpopulated we speak in relative
terms, inasmuch as the overpopulation of a country does not depend upon the ..."
4. The Economy of Happiness by James MacKaye (1906)
"Hence that state whose rapidity of approach to such an overpopulated condition
is the highest — other things being equal — is considered the most successful ..."
5. German Trade and the War: Commercial and Industrual Conditions in War Time by Chauncey Depew Snow, Josef Jiří Král (1918)
"These, and other similar arguments, create an impression that Germany is an
overpopulated country unable to employ a large part of its population. ..."
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