Usually means: Exceeding capacity, too many people.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcrowded: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overcrowded: Merriam-Webster
  3. overcrowded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overcrowded: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overcrowded, overcrowded: Wordnik
  6. overcrowded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overcrowded: Wiktionary
  8. overcrowded: Dictionary.com
  9. overcrowded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. overcrowded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcrowded: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

Similar:
overoccupied, crowded, cramped, overinhabited, jammed, congested, overpopulated, overpopulous, overstuffed, thick, more...

Opposite:
spacious, uncrowded, roomy, unfilled, empty

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Similar:
overoccupied, crowded, cramped, overinhabited, jammed, congested, overpopulated, overpopulous, overstuffed, thick, more...

Opposite:
spacious, uncrowded, roomy, unfilled, empty

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dark green,     olive, more...



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