packed with
- adjective
- The suitcase was packed with clothes for the two-week vacation.
- packed with people
- densely packed with people
- packed with activities
And my life is packed with shame and failure.
- And my life is packed with shame and failure.
- I mean, it's an amazing one line packed with, you know, meaning.
- Because, you know, good cereals packed with sugar and junk and carbs.
- And it's just, you know, packed with thousands and thousands of people.
- This category is packed with awesome games.
- So fatty, so indulgent, so rich and so densely packed with this incredibly tender beef.
- This is normally packed with thousands of people.
- And the stadiums were jam packed with young people having fun and enjoying themselves.
Examples
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I went food shopping, so the fridge is packed with all the essentials.
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So each episode is packed with fun facts and little known trivia about the show.
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And it's just, you know, packed with thousands and thousands of people.
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And it's packed with people who look happy as hell.
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Every single one of these things is completely packed with stuff, and I have more stuff.
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This is normally packed with thousands of people.
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The bar is packed with fresh faces.
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This category is packed with awesome games.
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The Islamic Center's vast meeting hall was crowded, packed with people far past any legal capacity.
Fiction book (1996) -
The refrigerator was packed with take-out containers.
Synonyms
Containing a lot of something, like tears or facts
Full of heavy things, for example a suitcase or a table of food
Full of people with no room left
To get more things than you can handle
So full that there is no space left
Full of a lot of something, often too much
Very full and crowded with almost no space
So full that there is little or no space
Completely full with no space left
Completely full of people or things with no space left
Full to the top with something, often a feeling
Very full after a large meal or in a crowded place
Completely filled with things, like a bag or pocket, so nothing else fits
Full so there is no room left
Full of something that takes up most of it
Full of things so it is heavy or crowded
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'containing a very large number or amount of something' is directly derivable from 'packed' (extremely full) combined with the preposition 'with' indicating contents; a learner who knows both words can infer that 'packed with clothes' means 'full of clothes'. This adjective + with construction is compositional and common cross-linguistically, so it is immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase packed with comes from the image of a bag or room so full that things are tightly pressed together. So, it now means 'filled to capacity' or 'full of'.