Meanings
- Stuck.
The window is jammed shut.
3 more examples
How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
The printer is still jammed. Make sure that all the jammed paper is removed.
The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- Overcrowded; congested.
A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.
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Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.
These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
Synonyms: jam-packed, jam rammed, packed, packed to the gills, rammed
- Rendered unusable by intentional interference.
All their broadcasts are jammed.
1 more example
The jammed programming is being distributed on USB sticks instead.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of jam
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOvercrowded; congested.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveextremely crowed or filled to capacity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Danish propfuld, smækfuld
- propfuldovercrowded; congested
- smækfuldovercrowded; congested
Dutch overvol, propvol
- overvolovercrowded; congested
- propvolovercrowded; congested
Finnish jumissa
- jumissapertaining to something which is stuck
German eingeklemmt, festgeklemmt
- eingeklemmtpertaining to something which is stuck
- festgeklemmtpertaining to something which is stuck
- eingequetschtpertaining to something which is stuck
- überfülltovercrowded; congested
- verstopftovercrowded; congested
- proppenvollovercrowded; congested
Icelandic sneisafullur
- sneisafullurovercrowded; congested
Italian bloccato, inceppato
- bloccatopertaining to something which is stuck
- inceppatopertaining to something which is stuck
- affollatoovercrowded; congested
- trafficatoovercrowded; congested
Norwegian proppfull, stappfull
- proppfullovercrowded; congested
- stappfullovercrowded; congested
Swedish överfull
- överfullovercrowded; congested
Cite this entry
jammed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jammed
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