Usually means: Too many people, limited resources.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. overpopulated: Merriam-Webster
  2. overpopulated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overpopulated: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overpopulated, overpopulated: Wordnik
  5. overpopulated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overpopulated: Wiktionary
  7. overpopulated: Dictionary.com
  8. overpopulated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Overpopulated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. overpopulated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overpopulated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having or consisting of a higher population than can be sustained.

Similar:
overpopulous, overinhabited, overcrowded, overoccupied, superpopulated, crowded, overpolluted, overresourced, populous, congested, more...

Opposite:
underpopulated, sparsely populated, low population

Types:
crowded, packed, teeming, swarming, bustling, more...



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Similar:
overpopulous, overinhabited, overcrowded, overoccupied, superpopulated, crowded, overpolluted, overresourced, populous, congested, more...

Opposite:
underpopulated, sparsely populated, low population

Types:
crowded, packed, teeming, swarming, bustling, more...



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