overpopulated

The city is overpopulated with people and traffic.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having too many people or inhabitants: "overpopulated" describes an area, city, or region where the number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support them comfortably or sustainably.

Usage Examples

• (The city has too many people for its resources.)
• (Cities have an excessive population compared to countryside.)
• (Prisons that hold more prisoners than they are designed for.)

Advanced Usage

• "overpopulated with [something]": used metaphorically to describe an excessive amount of something other than people.
  • The forest is overpopulated with deer, causing damage to vegetation. (The forest has too many deer.)
• "overpopulated area": a specific geographic region with excessive population density.
  • Overpopulated areas often face challenges like pollution and inadequate infrastructure. (Regions with too many inhabitants.)

Variants and Related Words

• Overpopulation (n): the condition of being overpopulated.
  • Overpopulation is a major concern for environmentalists. (The state of having too many people.)
• Overpopulate (v): to cause an area to become overpopulated.
  • Unchecked migration can overpopulate a small island. (To fill with too many people.)
• Underpopulated (adj): having too few people.
  • The remote village is underpopulated, with only a handful of residents. (Opposite of overpopulated.)

Synonyms

• Densely populated: having a high number of people per area.
• Crowded: filled with many people, often uncomfortably.
• Teeming: full of people or activity (e.g., ).

Related Idioms

• Bursting at the seams: extremely full or crowded.
  • The classroom is bursting at the seams because it is overpopulated with students. (Extremely full.)
• Packed like sardines: very tightly crowded together.
  • The train was packed like sardines, a sign of an overpopulated transit system. (Extremely crowded.)