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

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

The animal shelters in the Dallas/Fort Worth area are overcrowded, and shelters have a difficult time finding people willing to adopt the animals, Connie Stout said. —Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024

The overcrowded beach indicated that others shared Zimri’s sentiment. —Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024

Stephen’s family members are forced from their apartment into an overcrowded building in a Jewish ghetto. —Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of overcrowd

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined above