at capacity
No more room
At capacity describes something that has reached its maximum limit—no more can fit, be added, or be accommodated.
A venue at capacity can admit no more people: The stadium is at capacity for tonight's game.
The phrase applies to physical spaces, systems, or abstract limits: The hospital is operating at capacity, My schedule is at capacity this week.
- fullMaximum extent reached
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- maximum occupancyHighest permitted headcount
- fire marshalOfficial enforcing burn safety codes
- maxedReached the limit
filled to the brim · packed · bursting · saturated · limit · threshold · brimming · crowded · strained · stretched · stretched thin · running on fumes · overflowing · peak · all hands on deck · ceiling · sold out · standing room
- crowdedcrowded, jam-packed, packed like sardines, crammed, jammed
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- occupancy statusfull, empty, vacant, occupied, half full
- maxed outtapped out, topped out, maximal, pushed to the limit, full
- overloadoverload, overwhelmed, excess, surplus, maxed out
- Overloadedpacked, stuffed, crammed, jammed, full
at capacityempty
Holding nothing inside
vacant · unoccupied · half-empty · half-full · depleted
at capacityunderutilized
Insufficiently put to work
idle · unutilized · running light · slack · underused
at capacityunderutilized
Insufficiently put to work
below capacity · scalable · understaffed · underbooked · running light
capacity, capacities, capacious, capacitor, capacitors, capacitance, incapacity, incapacitate, incapacitated