Synonyms of teeming

teeming 1 of 2

adjective

as in filled

possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified

oceans teeming with life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• crowded
• bursting
• abundant
• packed
• swarming
• rife
• crammed
• awash
• jammed
• fraught
• replete
• stuffed
• thronging
• abounding
• saturated
• brimming
• buzzing
• lousy
• thick
• flush
• busy
• bulging
• chock-full
• loaded
• overflowing
• overcrowded
• bustling
• full
• congested
• clogged
• overstuffed
• overfull
• overloaded
• humming
• overladen
• overfilled
• jam-packed
• lively
• fat
• surfeited
• animated
• astir
• alive

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• empty
• devoid
• barren
• void
• blank
• bare
• vacant
• stark
• depleted
• short
• incomplete
• insufficient
• drained
• deficient
• exhausted

teeming

2 of 2

verb

present participle of teem

as in bursting

to be copiously supplied

the area teems with entrepreneurs hoping to hit upon the next big thing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bursting
• buzzing
• brimming
• bulging
• humming
• swarming
• abounding
• bustling
• overflowing
• bristling
• crawling
• pullulating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lacking
• wanting
• needing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of teeming

Adjective

The new findings are confounding scientists’ expectations, raising questions about how exactly molecules can encounter their reactive partners in a teeming, crowded space — and therefore how cells can possibly function. — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026

Verb

Three centuries later, the librarians of Alexandria took charge of the text, collating competing versions, marking doubtful lines, imposing a measure of order on the teeming verses. — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years. — ABC News, 13 June 2026

Americans wanted to forget about that massive war, get on with making money, get on with dealing with these teeming cities now full of immigrants. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

In the Diamantina zone, all five of the whale falls the scientists found were in the later stages of being consumed, with the bones fully exposed and host to teeming microbial communities. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 June 2026

The main street leading to Masjid An-Nabawi in Madinah was teeming, as everyone paced to get a spot for the sacred Jummah (Friday) prayer. — Mariam Amini, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026

Nilsson’s Evening Street Scene, 1964, a bustling urban tableau, along with Two Ladies and Starry Stage Ladies, both 1967, whose focal points are women mid-strut, recall certain prints from George Grosz’s 1922–23 Ecce Homo portfolio, not in tone but in their teeming rakishness. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

With virtually no set other than some boxes and platforms that get pushed onstage so that various authority figures can tower over the teeming masses, there’s plenty of room to dance. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026

To accept that there will always be creatures teeming nearby, some of them agonizing, expelled from their days. — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026