overcrowded

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Verb

overcrowded

1. simple past and past participle of overcrowd

Etymology 2

From over- +‎ crowded.

Adjective

overcrowded (comparative more overcrowded, superlative most overcrowded)

1. Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.
   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

     I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.

Translations

Containing too many occupants

Catalan: superpoblat, massificat (ca) French: surpeuplé (fr), bondé (fr), surchargé (fr), surfréquenté (fr) m German: überfüllt (de) Hungarian: túlzsúfolt (hu) Maori: whakaapiapi Norwegian: Bokmål: overfylt Nynorsk: overfylt Polish: przepełniony (pl), zatłoczony, stłoczony, przeludniony Portuguese: sobrelotado, superlotado (pt) Russian: перепо́лненный (ru) (perepólnennyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пренапучен Roman: prenapučen (sh) Spanish: superpoblado (es), atestado (es), abarrotado (es), hacinado (es), atiborrado (es), masificado (es)