full to overflowing
Spilling over edges
Full to overflowing describes a container or space so completely filled that its contents spill over the edges.
The phrase emphasizes excess beyond capacity: The church was full to overflowing with mourners.
It often carries emotional weight—a heart full to overflowing with gratitude, a life full to overflowing with blessings.
- brimmingFull to the top
- packedFilled to capacity
- ladenHeavily weighted down
- chock-fullFull to overflowing
- chock a blockExtremely crowded together
saturated · running over · teeming · inundated · bursting · surfeit · ecstatic · euphoric · elated · crammed · wall to wall · abundant · stuffed · packed like sardines · overwhelmed · profuse · spilling over · copious
full to overflowingbereft
Deprived through loss
devoid · bare · running on empty · barren · lacking
full to overflowingempty inside
hollow · numb · vacant · dead inside · running on empty
fullness, overflow, overflowing, overflows, overflowed, flowing, flowed, filled, filling