Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.
Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories. See Malthus.
The theory of Thomas Malthus (c. 1780), who believed that the world's population would increase to the threshold of starvation. Cf Limits to Growth.
A perspective that human population increases exponentially, beyond the capacity of the environment to support it, leading to conflict, starvation, and other forms of misery.
a believer in Malthusian theory
of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism; "Malthusian theories"
based on the theories of British economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), who argued that population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results, unless the increase in population is checked by moral restraints or by war, famine, and disease.