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packed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective packed has 2 senses
- packed(s = adj.all) jam-packed, jammed - filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
- packed(s = adj.all) Array - pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"
CIDE DICTIONARY
packed, adj.
- Same as jammed. [WordNet 1.5]
- Crowded; as, the theater was packed. [PJC]
THESAURUS
packed
SRO, aground, alive with, anchored, awash, bloated, blocked, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, capacity, caught, chained, chock-full, choked, choked up, chuck-full, clogged, clogged up, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, constipated, cooked, cooked-up, costive, cram-full, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, crowding, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, dense, distended, doctored, drenched, engineered, farci, fast, fastened, filled, filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, flush, foul, fouled, full, full to bursting, gluey, glutted, gorged, groaning, grounded, hard, heavy, held, high and dry, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable, impermeable, in profusion, in spate, in the bag, inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, jammed, juggled, lavish, loaded, manipulated, massive, moored, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed, on ice, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed like sardines, planned, plenary, plethoric, plotted, plugged, plugged up, populous, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, put-up, ready to burst, replete, rife, rigged, round, running over, satiated, saturated, schemed, serried, set-up, soaked, solid, stacked, standing room only, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tied, topful, transfixed, viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged, with
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