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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy, congested |
| Synonyms: | SRO, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, clean, close, compact, crammed, cramped, crushed, dense, elbow-to-elbow, filled to the rafters, fit to bust, full, full house, full up, huddled, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, lousy with, massed, mob scene, mobbed, overflowing, packed, populous, sardined, sold out, standing room only, stiff with, stuffed, swarming, teeming, thick, thickset, thronged, tight, topped off, up to here, up to the hilt, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | empty, uncongested, uncrowded, unfilled |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
| Synonyms: | a whale of a, ample, awash, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mondo, monster*, oversize, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super colossal, thundering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, walloping, whopper, whopping |
| Antonyms: | itsy, little, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brimming/brimful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing; up to the top |
| Synonyms: | awash, chock-full, crammed, crowded, filled, flush, full, full to the top, jammed, level with, loaded, overfull, packed, running over, stuffed, topfull |
| Antonyms: | empty, unfilled |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dense, cramped |
| Synonyms: | circumscribed, close-grained, compact, confined, confining, congested, consolidated, cropped, crowded, firm, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed, narrow, packed, restricted, short, solid, substantial, thick, tight |
| Antonyms: | loose, open, uncramped |
| Main Entry: | compact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condensed |
| Synonyms: | appressed, bunched, close, compressed, crowded, dense, firm, hard, impenetrable, impermeable, packed, pressed, solid, thick, tight |
| Notes: | a compact is a formal agreement on rights and conduct, a treaty is a compact between nations, and a contract is a compact between two business entities |
| Antonyms: | loose, slack, uncondensed |
| Main Entry: | congested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blocked, clogged |
| Synonyms: | chock-full, choked, closed, crammed, crowded, filled, glutted, gorged, gridlocked, jam-full, jam-packed, jammed, massed, mobbed, obstructed, occluded, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, plugged, stopped, stoppered, stuffed, stuffed-up, teeming, up to the rafters |
| Antonyms: | clear, free, open, unblocked, unclogged, uncongested, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | cramped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested, overcrowded |
| Synonyms: | awkward, circumscribed, close, closed in, confined, crabbed, crowded, hemmed in, illegible, incommodious, indecipherable, irregular, jammed in, little, minute, narrow, packed, pent, restricted, small, squeezed, tight, tiny, tucked up, two-by-four, uncomfortable |
| Antonyms: | free, open, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded, uninhibited, unobstructed |
| Main Entry: | dense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compressed, thick |
| Synonyms: | close, close-knit, compact, condensed, crammed, crowded, heaped, heavy, impenetrable, jam-packed, jammed, massed, opaque, packed, packed like sardines, piled, solid, substantial, thickset |
| Antonyms: | open, scattered, sparse, thin, uncompressed |
| Main Entry: | full |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brimming, filled |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, adequate, awash, big, bounteous, brimful, burdened, bursting, chock-full, chockablock, competent, complete, crammed, crowded, entire, extravagant, glutted, gorged, imbued, impregnated, intact, jam-packed, jammed, jammed full, laden, lavish, loaded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, padded, plenteous, plentiful, plethoric, profuse, replete, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied, saturated, stocked, stuffed, sufficient, suffused, surfeited, teeming, voluminous, weighted |
| Antonyms: | empty, incomplete, void |
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