jammed

The word “jammed” has 1 syllable: jammed

It's pronounced as /dʒæmd/


What is synonym and antonym for jammed?

In the thesaurus, “jammed” has 129 synonyms and 56 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jammed along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for jammed

  • abounding
  • anchored
  • attached
  • barred
  • bloated
  • blocked
  • bonded
  • bored
  • bound
  • brimful
  • brimmed
  • brimming
  • bulked
  • bulldozed
  • bulled
  • bunged
  • bursting
  • busy
  • caught
  • cemented
  • charged
  • chock-full
  • chockablock
  • chockful
  • choked
  • clamped
  • clogged
  • clotted
  • congested
  • corked
  • crammed
  • crashed
  • crowded
  • crushed
  • dammed
  • deluged
  • drenched
  • elbowed
  • embedded
  • entrenched
  • fast
  • fastened
  • fat
  • filled
  • firm
  • fixed
  • flooded
  • flush
  • fraught
  • frozen
  • full
  • furred
  • glued
  • glutted
  • gridlocked
  • heaped
  • honeycombed
  • humming
  • imbedded
  • immovable
  • impacted
  • implanted
  • intrenched
  • inundated
  • jam-packed
  • jampacked
  • jostled
  • lively
  • loaded
  • lodged
  • malfunctioning
  • matted
  • mobbed
  • multitudinous
  • muscled
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • out of order
  • overcharged
  • overcrowded
  • overfilled
  • overflowed
  • overflowing
  • overfull
  • overladen
  • overloaded
  • overstuffed
  • overwhelmed
  • packed
  • penetrated
  • populous
  • pressed
  • pushed
  • rammed
  • refilled
  • refreshed
  • reloaded
  • repacked
  • replenished
  • replete
  • rife
  • sandwiched
  • saturated
  • secured
  • set
  • shoehorned
  • shouldered
  • shoved
  • silted
  • snug
  • spiled
  • squashed
  • squeezed
  • stiff
  • stoppered
  • stoppled
  • stuck
  • stuffed
  • swamped
  • swarming
  • swollen
  • teeming
  • thrust
  • tight
  • trammeled
  • unworkable
  • unyielding
  • warped
  • wedged

Antonyms for jammed

  • bare
  • blank
  • bled
  • cleaned
  • clear
  • cleared
  • deficient
  • depleted
  • detached
  • devoid
  • dislodged
  • drained
  • eliminated
  • emptied
  • empty
  • evacuated
  • excavated
  • exhausted
  • flushed
  • freed
  • impermanent
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • insecure
  • insufficient
  • lightened
  • loose
  • loosened
  • movable
  • moveable
  • operating
  • purged
  • scoured
  • short
  • shortish
  • shy
  • stark
  • swept
  • unattached
  • unblocked
  • unbound
  • unclogged
  • uncongested
  • uncrowded
  • undone
  • unfastened
  • unfixed
  • unplugged
  • unsecured
  • unstopped
  • vacant
  • vacated
  • void
  • voided
  • wanting
  • yielding

Meanings of jammed

  • verb
    1. To get something stuck in a confined space.
    2. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
    3. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
    4. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
    5. To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
    6. To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
    7. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
    8. To attempt to score points.
    9. To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
    10. To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
  • adjective
    1. Stuck.
    2. Overcrowded; congested.

Example Sentences

  • In the rush hour traffic, cars were jammed bumper to bumper on the freeway.
  • The printer malfunctioned and jammed just as we were about to print important documents.
  • As the concert started, fans eagerly pushed forward, and the front row became jammed with enthusiastic spectators.
  • Despite their best efforts, the workers couldn't fix the jammed machinery, causing a delay in production.
  • The narrow alleyway was jammed with people enjoying the lively street festival.

On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jammed, such as: abounding, anchored, attached, bare, barred, blank, bled.

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Related Words

abounding

  • abundant
  • alive
  • animated
  • astir
  • awash
  • bountiful
  • brimming
  • bristling
  • bulging
  • bursting
  • bustling
  • busy
  • buzzing
  • chock-full
  • chockful
  • clogged
  • congested
  • copious
  • crammed
  • crawling
  • crowded
  • fat
  • filled
  • flush
  • fraught
  • full
  • humming
  • jam-packed
  • jammed
  • lively
  • loaded
  • lousy
  • overcrowded
  • overfilled
  • overflowing
  • overfull
  • overladen
  • overloaded
  • overstuffed
  • packed
  • plenteous
  • prodigal
  • profuse
  • prolific
  • pullulating
  • replete
  • rife
  • saturated
  • stuffed
  • surfeited
  • swarming
  • teeming
  • thick
  • thronging

abundant

  • abounding
  • adequate
  • alive
  • all kinds of
  • ample
  • animated
  • aplenty
  • astir
  • awash
  • blooming
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • brimming
  • bulging
  • bursting
  • bustling
  • busy
  • buzzing
  • chock-full
  • chockful
  • clogged
  • comfortable
  • congested
  • copious
  • cornucopian
  • crammed
  • crawling with
  • crowded
  • cup runs over with
  • eco-rich
  • enough
  • extra
  • exuberant
  • fat
  • fecund
  • fertile
  • filled
  • flush
  • fraught
  • fruitful
  • full
  • fulsome
  • galore
  • generous
  • heavy
  • humming
  • jam-packed
  • jammed
  • lavish
  • liberal
  • lively
  • loaded
  • lousy
  • lousy with
  • luxuriant
  • mucho
  • no end of
  • overcrowded
  • overfilled
  • overflowing
  • overfull
  • overladen
  • overloaded
  • overstuffed
  • packed
  • plate is full of
  • plenteous
  • plentiful
  • plenty
  • plump
  • prodigal
  • profuse
  • prolific
  • replete
  • rich
  • rife
  • rolling in
  • saturated
  • stinking with
  • stuffed
  • sufficient
  • supernumerary
  • surfeited
  • surplus
  • swarming
  • teeming
  • thick
  • thick on the ground
  • thronging
  • wealthy

calked

dammed

  • bar
  • barricade
  • barricaded
  • blockaded
  • blocked
  • brake
  • bunged
  • calked
  • caulked
  • check
  • chinked
  • choke
  • choked
  • clog
  • clogged
  • close
  • closed
  • clotted
  • confine
  • congested
  • corked
  • filled
  • flooded
  • furred
  • glutted
  • gridlocked
  • hinder
  • hold in
  • impassable
  • impassible
  • impede
  • inundated
  • jammed
  • obstruct
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • overwhelmed
  • packed
  • plugged
  • repacked
  • repress
  • restrain
  • restrict
  • restuffed
  • retard
  • sealed
  • silted
  • slow
  • spiled
  • stop up
  • stopped
  • stoppered
  • stoppled
  • stuffed
  • suppress
  • swamped
  • unnegotiable
  • unpassable

dawdling

  • adjournment
  • aestivating
  • afraid
  • ambling
  • apathetic
  • averse
  • averseness
  • backward
  • behind
  • behindhand
  • belated
  • bind
  • bit-by-bit
  • bumming
  • check
  • chilling
  • cooling-off period
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • cunctation
  • dallying
  • decelerating
  • delay
  • delayed
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • delinquent
  • demurral
  • detained
  • detainment
  • detention
  • diddling
  • diffident
  • dilatory
  • dilly-dallying
  • dillydallying
  • discontinuation
  • disinclined
  • dormancy
  • doubt
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • downtime
  • dozing
  • dragging
  • dreamy
  • droning
  • dropping behind
  • drowsy
  • dubiety
  • easing
  • easy
  • equivocation
  • estivating
  • falling behind
  • faltering
  • filibuster
  • filibustering
  • fluctuation
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fumbling
  • furloughing
  • goldbricking
  • goof-off time
  • gradual
  • half-hearted
  • halting
  • hanging about
  • hanging back
  • hanging fire
  • hangup
  • heavy
  • heavy-footed
  • held up
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitancy
  • hesitating
  • hibernating
  • hibernation
  • hindrance
  • holding
  • holding pattern
  • holdup
  • hung up
  • idle
  • idleness
  • idling
  • impediment
  • imperceptible
  • in a bind
  • inactive
  • inactivity
  • inching
  • indecision
  • indecisive
  • indecisiveness
  • indisposition
  • indolence
  • indolent
  • inert
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • inoperativeness
  • interval
  • irresolute
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • jam
  • jammed
  • joblessness
  • kicking around
  • kicking back
  • killing time
  • lackadaisical
  • lacking confidence
  • lag
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lallygagging
  • languid
  • laze
  • lazing
  • lazy
  • lazying
  • leaden
  • leisure
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lethargy
  • lingering
  • listless
  • loafing
  • loath
  • logjam
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • lollygagging
  • lounging
  • lumbering
  • malingering
  • marking time
  • measured
  • messing
  • messing around
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • moderate
  • monkeying
  • moping
  • moratorium
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • negligent
  • not arrived
  • not done
  • obstruction
  • oscillation
  • otiosity
  • overdue
  • own sweet time
  • passive
  • pause
  • pendulous
  • phlegmatic
  • piddling
  • playing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • postponement
  • postponing
  • pottering
  • problem
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • prorogation
  • putting off
  • qualm
  • quiet
  • relaxing
  • reluctance
  • reluctant
  • remiss
  • remission
  • reprieve
  • resting
  • retardation
  • retardment
  • sauntering
  • scruple
  • setback
  • shiftlessness
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • showstopper
  • shuffling
  • shy
  • skeptical
  • skepticism
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothful
  • slothfulness
  • slouch
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slow-going
  • slow-moving
  • slow-paced
  • slowing
  • slowness
  • sluggish
  • sluggishness
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • staggering
  • stagnant
  • stagnation
  • stall
  • stalling
  • stammering
  • stay
  • stop
  • stoppage
  • strapped for time
  • strolling
  • stumbling
  • stupor
  • stuttering
  • supine
  • surcease
  • suspension
  • swanning
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • temporizing
  • tentative
  • tentativeness
  • tie up
  • time to burn
  • time to kill
  • time-wasting
  • timid
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • to and fro
  • too late
  • torpid
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • tortoiselike
  • trifling
  • truancy
  • truanting
  • uneager
  • unemployment
  • unhurried
  • unpredictable
  • unpunctual
  • unsure
  • unwilling
  • unwillingness
  • vacillant
  • vacillating
  • vacillation
  • vacillatory
  • vegetating
  • vegging out
  • wait
  • wavering

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