teeming
Packed and bustling
Teeming describes something full of life, movement, or activity—usually so abundant it seems to overflow: streets teeming with people, waters teeming with fish.
The word suggests not just fullness but vigorous, almost chaotic abundance.
A teeming rain pours down heavily.
To teem is to be full of or to swarm with something.
Moving on hands, knees
- crowdedFilled beyond comfort
- packedFilled to capacity
- aliveHaving current existence
- throngingGathering in masses
infested · dense · populous · saturated · bursting · overrun · seething · jam-packed
Public urban ways
- marketsTrade gathering places
- bazaarsBusy outdoor trading areas
- crowdsAssembled multitudes
- commutersDaily work travelers
pedestrians · nightlife · metropolis · humanity · masses · traffic · plaza · subway
crawling
Moving on hands, knees
thronging · infested · dense · populous · saturated · bursting · overrun · seething · jam-packed · heaving
streets
Public urban ways
commuters · pedestrians · nightlife · metropolis · humanity · masses · traffic · plaza · subway · station
insects
Six-legged arthropods
larvae · bees · termites · worms · mosquitoes · flies · spawning · shoal · colony · nest
pouring
Flowing in volume
- downpourIntense precipitation event
- torrentialFlowing in violent streams
- delugeSevere overflow of water
sheets · buckets · monsoon · drenching · pelting · soaking · cloudburst · rainstorm · flooding · cascade
- abundanceabundance, plenty, profusion, bounty, fullness
- crowd adjectivespacked, dense, massive, huge, enormous
- crowdedcrowded, jam-packed, packed like sardines, crammed, jammed
- quantitiessome, many, few, amount, several
- downpoursdownpour, torrential rain, heavy rain, pouring rain, cloudburst
- overflowingoverflow, brimful, running over, spill, brim
- teeming metropolisDensely populated urban area
team, thriving, overflowing, bustling, swarming, teem, brimming, abounding, teems