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Overcrowded vs Hectic - What's the difference?

overcrowded | hectic |

As adjectives the difference between overcrowded and hectic

is that overcrowded is containing too many occupants for an area of its size while hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.

As a verb overcrowded

is (overcrowd).

As a noun hectic is

(obsolete) a hectic fever.

overcrowded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overcrowd)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

    • hectic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hectick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
    • hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
  • Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
    • The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

    Synonyms

    * feverish

    Derived terms

    * hectically

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A hectic fever.
  • (obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
    • For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].

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