glutted
- adjective
- /ˈɡlʌtɪd/
- glutted market
The European market is glutted with ideas.
- The European market is glutted with ideas.
Examples
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The European market is glutted with ideas.
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My son is ruined, and she grins like a glutted cat!
Fiction book (1992) -
The food market is glutted, making it hard for local farmers to sell their produce.
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With so many new smartphones being released, the market feels glutted and prices are dropping.
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After the holiday season, many stores find their shelves glutted with unsold inventory.
Synonyms
To get more things than you can handle
A place that has more goods than it can sell
Contains more goods than people want to buy
More than is needed or wanted
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glutted comes from the same root as glutton and from an old word meaning 'to gulp down' or 'swallow a lot'. Think of a person who eats until they are 'too full' — that picture of being overfilled is why we call a market or stock 'glutted' when it has more goods than are needed.