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crowded

crowd·ed
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [krou-did]
    • /ˈkraʊ dɪd/
    • /ˈkraʊdɪd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [krou-did]
    • /ˈkraʊ dɪd/

Definitions of crowded word

  • adjective crowded If a place is crowded, it is full of people. 3
  • adjective crowded If a place is crowded, a lot of people live there. 3
  • adjective crowded If your timetable, your life, or your mind is crowded, it is full of events, activities, or thoughts. 3
  • adjective crowded filled to excess; packed. 1
  • adjective crowded filled with a crowd: crowded streets. 1
  • adjective crowded uncomfortably close together: crowded passengers on a bus. 1

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Origin of crowded

First appearance:

before 1605
One of the 40% oldest English words
First recorded in 1605-15; crowd1 + -ed2

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Parts of speech for Crowded

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

crowded popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for crowded

adj crowded

  • full — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
  • teeming — falling in torrents: a teeming rain.
  • cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
  • jammed — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • loaded — bearing or having a load; full: a loaded bus.

adjective crowded

  • overcrowded — filled to excess; packed.
  • congested — A congested road or area is extremely crowded and blocked with traffic or people.
  • busy — A busy time is a period of time during which you have a lot of things to do.

adverb crowded

  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • arm in arm — If two people are walking arm in arm, they are walking together with their arms linked.
  • shoulder to shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.

noun crowded

  • three-ring circus — a circus having three adjacent rings in which performances take place simultaneously.
  • zoo — Berkeley Yacc

Antonyms for crowded

adj crowded

  • deserted — abandoned; forsaken: the problems of deserted wives and children.
  • unfilled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
  • imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
  • uncrowded — filled to excess; packed.

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