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crowded
CIDE DICTIONARY
crowded, adj.
- overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, a crowded program. Opposite of
uncrowded ."[Narrower terms:full, jammed, jam-packed, packed ]" [WordNet 1.5] - filled with a crowd; as, a crowded marketplace. [PJC]
- having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; as, crowded trains; a crowded theater. [PJC]
THESAURUS
crowded
alive with, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, at the double, awash, bloated, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, choked, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, confined, congested, consolidated, constricted, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crawling, crowding, dense, distended, double-quick, double-time, drenched, filled to overflowing, firm, full, gluey, glutted, gorged, hard, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, heavy, hurried, hyperemic, impenetrable, impermeable, in profusion, in spate, incapacious, incommodious, isthmian, isthmic, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, limited, loaded, massive, meager, narrow, near, nonporous, on the double, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, populous, pressed, pressed for time, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, pushed, ready to burst, restricted, rife, running over, rushed, satiated, saturated, scant, scanty, serried, slender, soaked, solid, strait, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tight, viscid, viscose, viscousROGET THESAURUS
crowded
Multitude
N multitude, numerous, numerosity, numerality, multiplicity, profusion, legion, host, great number, large number, round number, enormous number, a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy, scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest, crowd, lots, all in the world and his wife, greater number, majority, multiplication, multiple, many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few, Briarean, a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one, some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty, half a dozen, half a hundred, very many, full many, ever so many, numerous, numerose, profuse, in profusion, manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded, galore, thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of, no end of, no end to, cum multis aliis, thick as hops, thick as hail, plenty as blackberries, numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head, and what not, and heaven knows what, endless, their name is 'legion', acervatim, en foule, many- headed multitude, numerous as glittering gems of morning dew, vel prece vel pretio.For further exploring for "crowded" in Webster Dictionary Online