Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb people

2 senses of people

Sense 1
people -- (fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes")
       => populate -- (fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting")

Sense 2
people -- (furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated")
       => populate, dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods")

Antonyms of adj peopled

1 sense of peopled

Sense 1
peopled -- (furnished with people; "sparsely peopled arctic regions")

INDIRECT (VIA inhabited) -> uninhabited -- (not having inhabitants; not lived in; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses")

Similarity of adj peopled

1 sense of peopled

Sense 1
peopled -- (furnished with people; "sparsely peopled arctic regions")
       => inhabited (vs. uninhabited) -- (having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth")