Word.ws English Dictionary

overinhabited

overinhabited adjective: inhabited by too large a population.

Adjective

overinhabited (comparative more overinhabited, superlative most overinhabited)

  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.2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book

Forms of overinhabited

comparativemore overinhabited
superlativemost overinhabited

Origin of overinhabited

From over- + inhabited.

Questions about overinhabited

What does overinhabited mean?
Overinhabited means inhabited by too large a population.
What part of speech is overinhabited?
Overinhabited is an adjective.

Words near overinhabited in the dictionary

  1. overingesting
  2. overingestion
  3. overingestions
  4. overingests
  5. Overington
  6. overinhabited
  7. overinhalation
  8. overinhibited
  9. overinhibition
  10. overinitiate
  11. overinitiated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overinhabited (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overinhabited.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overinhabited. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.