Crowded

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  crowded \crowded\ adj.
     1. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess;
        as, a crowded program. Opposite of {uncrowded}.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: {full, jammed, jam-packed, packed}]
           [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. filled with a crowd; as, a crowded marketplace.
        [PJC]
  
     3. having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to
        excess with people; as, crowded trains; a crowded theater.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[=u]dan; cf.
     D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
     1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer.
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     2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us
        and crush us." --Shak.
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     3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to
        encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
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              The balconies and verandas were crowded with
              spectators, anxious to behold their future
              sovereign.                            --Prescott.
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     4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat
        discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
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     {To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the
        publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out
        the article.
  
     {To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of
        sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to
        carry a press of sail.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crowded
       adj : overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded
             theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a
             young mother's crowded days" [ant: {uncrowded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, viscous