1‘pupils are forced to share textbooks in overcrowded classrooms’
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
informal bulging at the seams, bursting at the seams, full to the gunwales, jam-packed, like the Black Hole of Calcutta
British informal heaving, like Piccadilly Circus
ANTONYMS
deserted, empty, vacant
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