congested

adjective

con·​gest·​ed kən-ˈje-stəd 

1

: extremely or excessively full or crowded

The trains ferried orphaned and abandoned kids from the congested East to new families and new lives in the heartland.

… it must be clear that the continuance is not being granted solely because of the court's congested calendar.

—The National Law Journal

Under the pressure of the weather conditions, congested traffic and wind shear, the crew never was able to stabilize the airplane on the ILS approach into JFK and had to execute a missed approach.

—Patrick R. Veillette

2

medical : containing an excessive accumulation especially of blood or mucus

congested lungs/sinuses

Examples of congested in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The signals are designed to improve traffic flow on congested expressways. —Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025

The industry’s current approach, throwing money at massive infrastructure projects, resembles adding two more lanes to a congested highway. —Baris Saydag, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2025

Right now, most exports leave through the congested Port of Houston. —David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

Rosengren and other Army witnesses expressed concern with the minimum separation required for aircraft to pass over each other in congested airspace. —Ben Mause, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1830, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for congested

• arrested
• attested
• contested
• detested
• digested
• divested
• infested
• ingested
• invested
• molested
• pretested
• protested

Medical Definition

congested

adjective

con·​gest·​ed kən-ˈjes-təd 

: containing an excessive accumulation especially of blood or mucus

congested mucous membranes

congested lungs