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

By then, institutions were chronically underfunded and overcrowded. —Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025

Its general sensibility seems more Superstore than The Office, down to the interstitial montages of customers acting up in the perpetually overcrowded waiting room. —Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025

Blanton says detainees were routinely denied their medication and were crammed into overcrowded cells. —Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025

Westchester in Briarcliff Manor from an overcrowded shelter in California. —Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of overcrowd

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overcrowded

• clouded
• crowded
• shrouded
• enshrouded
• unclouded
• uncrowded