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

Here's a look at which buildings are overcrowded and how many students are enrolled in the county. —Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2024

Several neighbors stated that the home was overcrowded. —Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

Forty years ago, policymakers reacted to the crack cocaine epidemic by passing new mandatory sentencing laws that destroyed families, led to overcrowded jails and prisons and contributed to fiscal pressures that some local governments felt during the early 2000s. —Darrell Steinberg, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024

Rafah was overcrowded with displaced Palestinians as, weeks into Israel’s war, the Israeli army ordered everyone from northern Gaza to evacuate south. —Ahmed Abu Artema, TIME, 12 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of overcrowd

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined above