overcrowded

adjective

over·​crowd·​ed ˌō-vər-ˈkrau̇-dəd 

: crowded or filled to excess : having too many people or things

overcrowded streets/cities/classrooms

living in overcrowded conditions

… having an overcrowded space can make it hard for buyers to … visualize their own belongings in the space, said Los Angeles-based designer Francesca Grace.

—Jennifer Tzeses

… some 5 million workers commute for up to three hours on trains so overcrowded that there seem to be as many passengers hanging on to the outside of the carriages as there are inside.

—Ismail Merchant

Examples of overcrowded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The emergency room floor was overcrowded with the injured while medical teams struggled to provide aid. —Abeer Salman, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024

Democrats argued those applying for the funds have to work to qualify for mortgages and are thus paying taxes, while Republicans argued the program, which ran out of funds in 11 days, is already overcrowded. —Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Sep. 2024

What also happened: The stadium became so overcrowded so quickly that security ordered the gates shut, locking out hundreds, maybe thousands of fans who paid top dollar to attend one of the most looked-forward-to sporting events in years. —Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024

Mitas and the Zoey team are now working with Amsterdam’s and Copenhagen’s tourism boards to re-create the experiment in overcrowded city centers. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 12 Aug. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of overcrowd

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined above