Entry Word: rife

Function: adjective

Meaning: possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified <our school is rife with rumors about the incoming principal>

Synonyms abounding, flush, fraught, replete, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

Related Words brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, full, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed; clogged, congested, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overloaded, overstuffed, surfeited; alive, animated, astir, bustling, busy, buzzing, humming, lively

Near Antonyms bare, barren, blank, devoid, empty, stark, vacant, void; depleted, drained, exhausted; deficient, incomplete, insufficient, short