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Inhabited vs Overpopulated - What's the difference?

inhabited | overpopulated |

As adjectives the difference between inhabited and overpopulated

is that inhabited is having inhabitants; lived in while overpopulated is having a higher population than can be sustained in an area.

As a verb overpopulated is

past tense of overpopulate.

inhabited

English

Adjective

(head)
  • having inhabitants; lived in
  • (obsolete) uninhabited
    • (Brathwait)

    Antonyms

    * (having inhabitants) uninhabited

    overpopulated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overpopulate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a higher population than can be sustained in an area.

    • See also

    * overcrowded