Overinhabited
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From over- + inhabited.
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