overinhabited

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adjective

Inhabited by too large a population.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverinhabited (comparative more overinhabited, superlative most overinhabited)

comparative more overinhabited · superlative most overinhabited

  1. Inhabited by too large a population.

    The suburbs are supposedly where nothing happens, like Auden said about what poetry doesn't do; an overinhabited faux terrain dozing in inertia, occasionally disrupted by “a Columbine” or “an Oklahoma City” or a hurricane to remind us what's really real.

    2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book

Origin

From over- + inhabited.

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APA

overinhabited. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinhabited

MLA

“overinhabited.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinhabited. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overinhabited,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinhabited.

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