Synonyms of serried

serried

adjective

ˈser-ēd 

as in crowded

having little space between items or parts

a sterile subdivision with serried rows of cookie-cutter houses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crowded
• packed
• dense
• thick
• tight
• close
• compact
• jammed
• massed
• jam-packed
• pressed
• squeezed
• crammed
• overcrowded
• compressed
• crushed
• compacted
• condensed
• solid
• congested
• wall-to-wall
• airtight
• impervious
• snug
• impenetrable
• impermeable
• hard
• firm

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• open
• loose
• airy
• commodious
• spacious
• uncrowded
• roomy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of serried

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

In lieu of the usual venue of the Dolby Theatre, where nominees and their guests sit elbow to elbow in serried ranks, this year’s edition was held in Los Angeles’s cavernous Union Station. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021

No one had lined us up in serried, uniform ranks, no one had demanded an oath or a membership—or anything more than the spirit of DIY. — Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020