Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fully peopled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not fully peopled.
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- adjective Short of
people ;underpopulated .
Etymologies
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under- + peopled
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Examples
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Apocalypse comes cheap in the movies today: whatever happened to create the blasted and underpeopled landscapes of The Road, The Book Of Eli or Zombieland may have its far more plausible roots in something like what we see in Contagion.
Contagion is the latest change in Steven Soderbergh's chameleon career 2011
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A new colony must always, for some time, be more understocked in proportion to the extent of its territory, and more underpeopled in proportion to the extent of its stock, than the greater part of other countries.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1756
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