overcrowded

Speech parts

1. overcrowded - Adjective

2. overcrowded - Verb

Meaning

overcrowded

simple past and past participle of overcrowd

overcrowded (comparative more overcrowded, superlative most overcrowded)

Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

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Synonyms

populated pressed packed crowded populous stuffed jammed congested overloaded overflowing choked supercharged teeming brimming brimful
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Antonyms

empty vacant deserted unoccupied yeasty depopulated

Phrases with the word

more overcrowded overcrowded with vehicles less overcrowded

Examples

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely. Brian Aldiss

[Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends. E. M. Forster

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. Edward Abbey

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. Lloyd Alexander

An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

overcrossing overcrow overcrowd overcrowded with vehicles overcrowdedly overcrowdedness