🧴 Easy to press 👌 Very easy 🚇 Very cramped

squeezy

1 7.6

Uncomfortably small and crowded so people cannot move

adjective
/ˈskwiːzi/

: apretado

After adding a few more people to the small room, it became uncomfortably squeezy.

Examples

The car was so full that it felt a bit squeezy inside.
During the concert, the crowd was squeezy and hard to move through.
It's starting to feel a little squeezy, right?

Dumb Money (2023)
Starting to feel a little squeezy.

Dumb Money (2023)

Synonyms

cramped

vssqueezy

62 3.2

A space that is too small for people to move easily

is more informal and used mainly in casual speech

Antonyms

spacious

43 2.5

A large open room or area with plenty of space

roomy

20 2.1

Large with a lot of space inside

How Cramped

claustrophobic

11 6.7

squeezy

1 7.6

tight

746 1.0

Surface Forms

squeezy positive

Morphology

squeezy = squeeze (semi-transparent) = squeeze + y

The cramped sense extends metaphorically from 'being squeezed together'; the relation is plausible but not a purely literal adjectival meaning.

Etymology

Squeezy comes from the verb squeeze, which means 'to press together'. So a place feels squeezy when people or things are pressed close and it feels crowded.