overstuffed

Packed beyond capacity

Overstuffed describes furniture padded thickly with soft filling—the plump, cushiony look of traditional upholstered pieces: an overstuffed armchair, an overstuffed sofa.

More broadly, overstuffed means filled beyond comfortable capacity: an overstuffed suitcase, an overstuffed schedule.

After a large meal, you might feel overstuffed yourself.

crammed

packed

Filled to capacity

brimming · heaped · teeming · crowded · cluttered · overloaded · bursting · laden · glutted · saturated

bulging

swollen

Abnormally enlarged

stretched · protruding · bloated · ballooned · expanded · puffed · inflated · popping · overfilled · splitting

furniture

cushioned

Made softer or gentler

armchair · sofa · recliner · ottoman · loveseat · padded · tufted · pillowy · luxurious · lounging

food

gorged

Ate to excess

heavy · uncomfortable · thanksgiving · burrito · sandwich · calzone · gyro · dumpling · ravioli · glutted

excess

overloaded

Burdened past capacity

hoarding · disorganized · jumbled · messy · abundance · surplus · overabundance · excessive · superfluous · overcrowded

Categories
Opposites
fullness/capacity

overstuffedempty

Holding nothing inside

bare · vacant · hollow · sparse · unfilled

furniture padding/cushioning

overstuffedhard

Firm or demanding

unpadded · firm · uncushioned · wooden · unupholstered

eating/satiation

overstuffedstarving

Suffering extreme hunger

hungry · famished · ravenous · empty · peckish

Phrases
Family

overstuff, overstuffs, overstuffing

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G