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packed

packed
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pakt]
    • /pækt/
    • /pækt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pakt]
    • /pækt/

Definitions of packed word

  • adjective packed transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load: pack animals. 1
  • adjective packed compressed into a pack; packed. 1
  • adjective packed used in or adapted for packing: pack equipment. 1
  • adjective packed Chiefly Scot. (of animals) tame. 1
  • noun packed a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack. 1
  • noun packed a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination): a pack of cigarettes; a six-pack of beer. 1

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Origin of packed

First appearance:

before 1770
One of the 46% newest English words
First recorded in 1770-80; pack1 + -ed2

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Packed

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

packed popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% 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.

packed usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for packed

adj packed

  • appressed — pressed closely against, but not joined to, a surface
  • big — A big person or thing is large in physical size.
  • brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
  • brimming — completely full with something
  • chock-a-block — A place that is chock-a-block is very full of people, things, or vehicles.

adjective packed

  • alive — If people or animals are alive, they are not dead.
  • awash — If the ground or a floor is awash, it is covered in water, often because of heavy rain or as the result of an accident.
  • crammed — If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else.
  • filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.

noun packed

  • backpacked — Simple past tense and past participle of backpack.
  • baled — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
  • batched — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
  • crewed — (especially of an aircraft, ship, or spacecraft) operated by a crew on board.
  • droved — simple past tense of drive.

verb packed

  • chocked — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
  • containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
  • fetched — damned: Jim beat up every fetched one of them.
  • infolded — Simple past tense and past participle of infold.
  • warehoused — Simple past tense and past participle of warehouse.

Antonyms for packed

adj packed

  • bulker — magnitude in three dimensions: a ship of great bulk.

noun packed

  • mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.

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