underpopulated
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- adjective
- /ˌʌndərˈpɒpjʊleɪtɪd/
:
despoblado
- Many rural regions are underpopulated, making access to essential services difficult.
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Examples
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And again, as we saw in the underpopulated areas of New Guinea, when a man died leaving a wife, no time was wasted.
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However, given Doyle's proximity to an isolated, underpopulated stretch of woods, and a murky lake that sees few human intruders, it is possible.
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Some towns are simply too small or underpopulated for those to ever turn a profit and are really more of a headache in some ways.
Blog text (30) -
I don't know if the island was ever cleared, but it's underpopulated now.
Fiction book (2000) -
In relatively underpopulated areas, particularly France and Spain, the adoption of Roman agricultural technology did lead to a substantial increase in population density.
Academic text (2018) -
Canada was very underpopulated, was underindustrialized, and was less than two-thirds urban before 1950.
Academic text (1990) -
Australia was two-thirds urban even by 1891, but remained underpopulated and underindustrialized for decades more.
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Underpopulated and somewhat remote, the undulating landscape foreshadows the mountains to the west.
Fiction book (2002) -
They were initially welcomed into an underpopulated frontier society that, on one hand, needed inexpensive manpower to fuel the emerging labor-intensive economy, but on the other hand, offered them opportunities for financial gain.
Academic text (1995) -
Labor Party leaders such as Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres hoped to transfer most of the West Bank to Jordan while supporting Israeli settlement of underpopulated areas.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A place that is not full of people or things and has plenty of space
Antonyms
How Populated
Surface Forms
Morphology
underpopulated = underpopulate (transparent) = under + populate + ed
Formed from the verb 'underpopulate' by adding -ed to create an adjectival past participle; the meaning follows directly from 'under-' + 'populate'.
Etymology
The word underpopulated is made of the parts under- meaning 'below' or 'not enough' and populate meaning 'to fill with people'. So an underpopulated area is one that has fewer people than is usual or needed.