overinhabited

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ inhabited.

Adjective

overinhabited (comparative more overinhabited, superlative most overinhabited)

  1. Inhabited by too large a population.
    • 2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book:
      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.
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