MASSED Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in pressed

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verb

past tense of mass

as in accumulated

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range

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Recent Examples of massed

Adjective

China’s military has unveiled a combat drone converted from a Soviet–era fighter jet, a development that could enable massed drone attacks in any future conflict over Taiwan. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025

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In this way, massed FPV drones can produce the same tactical and psychological effects traditionally generated by sustained artillery bombardment. — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 This tall plant works well at the back of borders or massed in woodland, meadow, and coastal gardens. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2026 The low block—where teams massed defenders rigidly behind the ball—not so much. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 The Joint Force seeks a cost-effective, theater-range, massed, and modular Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to provide a flexible, operationally-responsive, risk-tolerant option in the air domain. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026 Thousands of demonstrators massed across South African cities, venting anger at undocumented foreign nationals. — Reuters, NBC news, 1 July 2026 Even hours after the attack, plumes of black smoke massed along the Moscow skyline - and all four of the city's airports suspended operations for much of the day. — Charles Maynes, NPR, 18 June 2026 The King, 77, led members of his family in taking in the sights and cheers of the crowd massed below as Trooping the Colour had its grand finale on Saturday, June 13. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026 Soldiers massed around Central, crossing rifles to prevent the Black students, who would soon be immortalized as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the grounds. — Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for massed

Adjective

By design, college football fans will be hard-pressed to avoid the ACC this weekend.

— Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 3 Sep. 2026
More to the point, another 7% gain would boost the league’s average delivery to a hair shy of 20 million viewers per game, which is a summit that even the mighty NFL would be hard pressed to reach.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of pressed

Verb

Other magpies gathered around it, as if saddened and confused.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Working closely with its wholesale technology team, Arc’teryx refined its order workflows, gathered feedback directly from dealers and observed the buying process to understand where retailers were encountering obstacles.

— Advertorial, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of gathered

Adjective

Ashleigh Johnson, a mother of four in the Grapevine-Colleyville school district, said her kids were pushed into an overcrowded school when the district was forced to close its elementary school because of budget shortfalls and declining enrollment.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Burnham also faces pressure over Britain’s overcrowded prisons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of overcrowded

Adjective

The roads of New Orleans are cluttered with serried ranks of billboards touting the services of personal-injury lawyers.

— Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
New York must do better than its usual serried towers and clunky blocks; a new cast of leaders can look abroad to figure out how.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025

Definition of serried

Adjective

Supported by Waugh’s muscular direction, Wilson and Ritchson work well together in a chase film whose thinly sketched premise barely sustains its wall-to-wall action sequences.

— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
So there's going to be a wall-to-wall ad campaign for Ken Paxton from here through the convention.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of wall-to-wall

Adjective

Fires routinely sweep Kinshasa’s dense neighborhoods during the dry season, where rapid urban growth outpaces basic protections such as reliable fire and emergency services.

— Saleh Mwanamilongo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
There comes a moment, looking at Evans’s dense worlds, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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