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

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

Why, those teeming crowds just outside the shows are their own lively scene, filled with exciting, unexpected, and downright inspired takes on what’s happening in fashion. — Phil Oh, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026

The designer emerged to a standing ovation in a New York letterman jacket, the cherry on top of a summer in the city teeming full of optimism and possibility. — Anika Reed, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

This teeming togetherness becomes evident even in Flash’s music. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Johnson County, with Iowa City and its teeming suburbs, and Scott County's economically diverse cities of Davenport and Bettendorf help make the district among the most competitive in the country. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Great teeming swarms of them, with an occasional locust seen in big buggy close-up, and shots of flying from a locust’s-eye view (the Steadicam had just been invented). — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Aug. 2026

Shot across the teeming city streets and the majestic underground caves of Ireland, Bucking Fastard features operatic imagery from the director’s longtime cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 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