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View definitions for populated

populated

adjective as in inhabited

adjective as in occupied

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Densely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.

In a country with a fully functioning health system populated with able and willing medical professionals, this is doable.

ISIS is also beginning to make its presence felt in long-troubled and mostly Sunni-populated eastern Iran.

Our American tendency to see the world as populated by like-minded souls is never productive.

The border lacks major fortifications; the area is thinly populated.

He recognised the fact that the world was populated by fools, and he determined to make the most of his chances.

I shall not presume to say anything on this subject, except that I believe this province has been populated about 270 years.

The mountains along both the north and the south coast were thinly populated.

We found the banks of the Ord very thickly populated, and frequently camped at night with different parties of natives.

I request to be conducted into a better-populated compartment.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to populated, such as: developed, owned, populous, settled, colonized, and peopled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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