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Definition

Completely full (of things, of stuff); packed; stuffed.

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In Context

  • "The second reason his disliking of objects seems implausible is that I'm interviewing him in his Victorian terrace house in Islington – and it is packed to the rafters, often rather beautifully, with everything from Memphis glass to mid-century Aalto furniture to William Morris prints to Picasso plates..."
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Opposite In Meaning

  • empty
  • empty
  • empty as a pauper's purse
  • empty as the tomb on Easter
  • clean
  • leer
  • toom
  • unfilled
  • vacant
  • vacuumlike
  • vacuous
  • void