Synonyms of crammed

crammed 1 of 2

adjective

as in filled

containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible

the auditorium is usually crammed when that candidate makes an appearance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• packed
• bursting
• jammed
• crowded
• stuffed
• full
• loaded
• brimming
• chock-full
• brimful
• jam-packed
• chockablock
• overstuffed
• overcrowded
• overloaded
• overflowing
• overfilled
• fat
• overladen
• overfull
• teeming
• replete
• fraught
• rife
• swarming
• abounding
• flush

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• empty
• devoid
• vacant
• bare
• blank
• short
• void
• inadequate
• insufficient
• stark
• incomplete
• wanting
• deficient
• shy
• drained
• depleted
• shortish
• exhausted

crammed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of cram

1

as in stuffed

to fit (people or things) into a tight space

tried to cram one more book into the backpack

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stuffed
• squeezed
• loaded
• jammed
• packed
• wedged
• crowded
• rammed
• sandwiched
• shoehorned
• filled
• crushed
• jam-packed
• heaped

2

as in packed

to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained

crammed his mouth with candy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• packed
• loaded
• stuffed
• jammed
• jam-packed
• heaped
• brimmed
• flooded
• charged
• refilled
• shoved
• swamped
• crowded
• glutted
• drenched
• rammed
• bloated
• squeezed
• squashed
• saturated
• bulked
• replenished
• repacked
• penetrated
• overflowed
• reloaded
• refreshed
• matted
• crushed
• honeycombed
• pressed
• overfilled
• overcharged

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• emptied
• cleared
• vacated
• evacuated
• eliminated
• exhausted
• drained
• depleted
• drew (off)
• cleaned
• swept
• voided
• lightened
• flushed
• bled
• purged
• scoured

3

as in gorged

to fill with food to capacity

one of those eating contests in which competitors attempt to cram themselves with as many hot dogs as they can in three minutes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stuffed
• gorged
• filled
• glutted
• surfeited
• sated
• feasted
• gobbled
• regaled
• guzzled
• gulped
• cloyed
• pigged out
• banqueted
• gormandized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fasted
• dieted

4

as in devoured

to swallow or eat greedily

the thoughtless guest crammed a dinner that had taken hours to prepare

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devoured
• inhaled
• gulped
• gobbled
• scoffed
• glutted
• slopped
• scarfed
• gorged
• wolfed
• bolted
• ravened
• ingurgitated
• gormandized
• swilled
• pigged out
• overate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• picked
• nibbled
• pecked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of crammed

Adjective

But away from the din at the crammed Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, a quieter labor-management battle is unfolding over who controls the sport’s money and how much should go to players. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

The Gulf’s conference season is usually packed into the cooler months, and the last quarter of 2026 is even more crammed because events in the spring were postponed due to the war. — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

He wasn’t charged until two years after the homicide, as police struggled to identify who shot the victim in a crammed Tiny Home community hundreds of people were known to frequent. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

What comes next is another slate of crammed club matches for all these players, and enough friendlies to keep the Spanish federation profitable. — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

Despite the crammed screenplay, Kara going to a red-sun planet to feel human and forget about everything is the most human thing ever. — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

In the era of shrinking airline seats and oversold flights, eking out even an extra inch of space in an ultra-crammed economy cabin can feel like a major win. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026

As one reporter predicted three, hearts sank in the crammed quarters. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026

When your floor space is far from generous, implementing small bedroom storage ideas is the difference between waking up in crammed quarters and having breathing room. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2026

Verb

The rivers of people who crammed central Paris and their joyful enthusiasm rivaled other communal, though nonreligious, moments of celebration that marked France in recent decades. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

The rivers of people who crammed central Paris and their joyful enthusiasm rivaled other communal but non-religious moments of celebration that marked France in recent decades. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

However, without the expansive 20-plus-episode seasons that were standard when the first series aired, storylines that would typically unfold over several episodes, or a season, are crammed into just 10 30-minute episodes. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Lunch hour has its beginning and its ending, and somehow the whole teeming chaos of midcentury Midtown must be crammed within it, before the hour slams shut. — Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2026

This halts the nuclear fusion process — which involves converting that hydrogen to helium — leading to the stars collapsing and shedding their outer layers to become a white dwarf with around the mass of the sun crammed into the width of Earth. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Crowds crammed into theaters to see Marilyn Monroe magnified on the screen. — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026

For the first few days, they were held in a room crammed with up to 80 men, with just a handful of open toilets, in frigid conditions and with only a thin towel to sleep under, before being moved to two-person cells. — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

Once sparsely populated, low Earth orbit is now crammed with satellites owned, operated and accessed by many countries — including America’s adversaries. — Elaine McCusker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2026