adjective

• Having an excessively large population.

  ‘overpopulated industrial countries’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the island lacked resources and was overpopulated’

  Synonyms

  packed, congested, crushed, cramped, overcrowded, full, filled to capacity, full to bursting, overfull, overflowing, teeming, swarming, thronged, populous, overpopulated, overpeopled, busy