Undercrowded
adj, verb
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of undercrowd form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Without a sufficiently large crowd; underpopulated or underattended.
"Both the overcrowded American city and the undercrowded suburb are artificial communities, their cohesiveness destroyed to a large extent by the automobile."
Example
More examples"Both the overcrowded American city and the undercrowded suburb are artificial communities, their cohesiveness destroyed to a large extent by the automobile."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From undercrowd + -ed.
Etymology 2
From under- + crowded.
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