adjective

• (of accommodations or a space) filled beyond what is comfortable, safe, or desirable.

  ‘infectious diseases can spread in overcrowded prisons’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the train was seriously overcrowded’

  Synonyms

  overfull, overflowing, full to bursting, full to overflowing, crammed full, cram-full, jammed, packed like sardines, congested, choked, overloaded, overpopulated, overpeopled, overrun, crowded, thronged, swarming, teeming

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