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单词 underpopulated
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Definition of underpopulated in English:

underpopulated

adjectiveʌndəˈpɒpjʊleɪtɪdˌəndərˈpɑpjəleɪdəd
  • Having an insufficient or very small population.

    the rocky and underpopulated west coast
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The population is crowded together in towns on tiny plots of land, while much of the open land is underpopulated and underused.
    • The aim of the £20 million package is to fast-track spending into the 16 most underpopulated areas in the country.
    • Manpower shortages in the underpopulated Confederate states had led their Congress to embrace conscription even before the North did.
    • In spite of these imperfections, the book is an important addition to an underpopulated genre of science books: It critically examines both sides of interesting, important, and unsettled arguments.
    • As mentioned earlier, their reports state that the peninsula was underpopulated and vastly undercultivated.
    • Meeting and mixing with people you first met and mixed with in the students' union is symptomatic of underpopulated nations.
    • Most decisions were driven by the need to attract and maintain population, having inherited an apparently underpopulated land.
    • Britain and other European countries face being underpopulated because of the low birth rate.
    • Depicting underpopulated picturesque rustic scenes had become commonplace by the 17th century.
    • All we had to do was pipe water from the underpopulated, rain-rich North to the populous but parched South.
    • With 19.8 million people contained in an area roughly the size of the contiguous 48 states, Australia may seem drastically underpopulated to the 285 million residents of the U.S.
    • The streets were very quiet at night, one of the advantages of an underpopulated city.
    • Uruguay was created in an underpopulated borderland between Brazil and Argentina.
    • Even though much of the film takes place in the sunny metropolis of Los Angeles (with the rest happening in San Fransisco), it is curiously underpopulated (for the most part).
    • The Upper Ohio Valley had been an underpopulated borderland that, by 1748, had become home to Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo migrants from east of the Appalachians.
    • Ann and James invited me to one of those plush, underpopulated screening rooms in midtown with seats so comfortable that they ruin the local theater by comparison.
    • Until recently, Africa was one of the most underpopulated continents.

Derivatives

  • underpopulation

  • noun
    • She adds that the underpopulation is hardly across the board: while her own ninth-grade classes are small, several 10th-grade classes run between 30 and 35.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An alternative conceptual approach to identifying over- or underpopulation, which could be applied empirically, is to compare marginal social versus private costs and benefits.
      • Here in Britain, we have heard a lot over the years about the problems of overpopulation in developing countries but very little about the very real danger of underpopulation in the developed lands.

Rhymes

unpopulated
 
 

Definition of underpopulated in US English:

underpopulated

adjectiveˌəndərˈpäpyəlādədˌəndərˈpɑpjəleɪdəd
  • Having an insufficient or very small population.

    the rocky and underpopulated west coast
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All we had to do was pipe water from the underpopulated, rain-rich North to the populous but parched South.
    • As mentioned earlier, their reports state that the peninsula was underpopulated and vastly undercultivated.
    • The aim of the £20 million package is to fast-track spending into the 16 most underpopulated areas in the country.
    • Meeting and mixing with people you first met and mixed with in the students' union is symptomatic of underpopulated nations.
    • Until recently, Africa was one of the most underpopulated continents.
    • Most decisions were driven by the need to attract and maintain population, having inherited an apparently underpopulated land.
    • With 19.8 million people contained in an area roughly the size of the contiguous 48 states, Australia may seem drastically underpopulated to the 285 million residents of the U.S.
    • The streets were very quiet at night, one of the advantages of an underpopulated city.
    • Uruguay was created in an underpopulated borderland between Brazil and Argentina.
    • Ann and James invited me to one of those plush, underpopulated screening rooms in midtown with seats so comfortable that they ruin the local theater by comparison.
    • The Upper Ohio Valley had been an underpopulated borderland that, by 1748, had become home to Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo migrants from east of the Appalachians.
    • The population is crowded together in towns on tiny plots of land, while much of the open land is underpopulated and underused.
    • In spite of these imperfections, the book is an important addition to an underpopulated genre of science books: It critically examines both sides of interesting, important, and unsettled arguments.
    • Britain and other European countries face being underpopulated because of the low birth rate.
    • Even though much of the film takes place in the sunny metropolis of Los Angeles (with the rest happening in San Fransisco), it is curiously underpopulated (for the most part).
    • Depicting underpopulated picturesque rustic scenes had become commonplace by the 17th century.
    • Manpower shortages in the underpopulated Confederate states had led their Congress to embrace conscription even before the North did.
 
 
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