depopulated

1. 1.

   having lost inhabitants as by war or disease

   “the 15th century plagues left vast areas of Europe depopulated”

   Similaruninhabited

Questions about depopulated

What does depopulated mean?

depopulated means "having lost inhabitants as by war or disease".

How many syllables are in depopulated?

depopulated has 5 syllables and divides as de-po-pu-la-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is depopulated a common word?

depopulated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.