Need another word that means the same as “congested”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “congested” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Congested” are: engorged, crowded, overcrowded, full, overfull, overflowing, full to bursting, full to overflowing, thronged, packed, jammed, teeming, swarming, overloaded
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “congested” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| crowded | Overfilled or compacted or concentrated. A very crowded room. |
| engorged | Overfull as with blood. |
| full | Constituting the full quantity or extent complete. The fuller figure. |
| full to bursting | Having the normally expected amount. |
| full to overflowing | Complete in extent or degree and in every particular. |
| jammed | Extremely crowed or filled to capacity. A suitcase jammed with dirty clothes. |
| overcrowded | (of accommodation or a space) filled beyond what is comfortable, safe, or desirable. The train was seriously overcrowded. |
| overflowing | Flooding or flowing over a surface or area. An overflowing tub. |
| overfull | Exceeding demand. An overfull cup of tea. |
| overloaded | (of an electrical system) having too great a demand put upon it. They were fed up with frequent electricity cuts to the building due to overloaded circuits. |
| packed | Pressed together or compressed. A packed theater. |
| swarming | Moving in or forming a large or dense group. A swarming mass of bodies. |
| teeming | Full of people or things; crowded. She walked through the teeming streets. |
| thronged | Filled with great numbers crowded together. I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas. |
| bazaar | A market in a Middle Eastern country. The church bazaar. |
| bottleneck | The style of playing that uses a bottleneck. The bottleneck on Talbot Road. |
| bumper-to-bumper | A mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage. |
| congestion | Excessive crowding. The new bridge should ease congestion in the area. |
| cram | Force (people or things) into a place or container that is or appears to be too small to contain them. It s amazing how you ve managed to cram everyone in. |
| crowd | Cause to herd drive or crowd together. Free thinkers who don t follow the crowd. |
| crowded | (of a space) full of people, leaving little or no room for movement; packed. A crowded theater. |
| crystallized | (of fruit or ginger) coated and impregnated with sugar as a means of preservation. Quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized. |
| dense | Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Dense vegetation. |
| impede | Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder. The sap causes swelling which can impede breathing. |
| jam | A hold obtained by jamming a part of the body such as a hand or foot into a crack in the rock. An ultra catchy jam driven by the drums but given substance by the interjection of horns. |
| jammed | Filled to capacity. A suitcase jammed with dirty clothes. |
| mob | A disorderly crowd of people. A mob of protesters. |
| multitude | A large number of people or things. A multitude of medical conditions are due to being overweight. |
| nonporous | Not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores. |
| obstruct | Block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of. Fears that the regime would obstruct the distribution of food. |
| occlude | Cover (an eye) to prevent its use. Occluded within these crystals are other molecules. |
| overcrowd | Cause to crowd together too much. The students overcrowded the cafeteria. |
| packed | Pressed together or compressed. A packed theater. |
| pickle | A pickled cucumber. All right me pickle said Dad. |
| pile | Place or lay as if in a pile. His in tray was piled high with papers. |
| pressed | (of juice or oil) extracted by crushing or squeezing fruit, vegetables, etc. Immaculately pressed trousers. |
| rabble | A disorderly crowd of people. He was met by a rabble of noisy angry youths. |
| rout | Defeat disastrously. In a matter of minutes the attackers were routed. |
| teeming | Abundantly filled with especially living things. She walked through the teeming streets. |
| thick | Not thin of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. The ground was thick with yellow leaves. |
| thickly | In a closely compacted or crowded manner. The meat was too thickly cut and impossible to chew. |
| throng | Flock or be present in great numbers. Tourists thronged to the picturesque village. |
| toast | Slices of bread that have been toasted. Place under a hot grill until the nuts have toasted. |
| traffic | Vehicles moving on a public highway. Traffic drugs. |
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