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lousy with

ADJECTIVE
abundant
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ample bountiful copious generous heavy rich sufficient
WEAK
abounding bounteous crawling with cup runs over with eco-rich exuberant filled full lavish liberal luxuriant mucho no end of overflowing plate is full of plenteous plenty profuse rolling in stinking with teeming
Antonyms
STRONGEST
depleted insufficient lacking meager needy poor wanting
WEAK
rare scarce sparse
ADJECTIVE
crowded
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cramped full huddled jam-packed jammed loaded packed populous teeming
STRONG
brimming clean close compact crammed crushed massed mobbed overflowing stuffed swarming thronged
WEAK
SRO awash brimful chock-full dense elbow-to-elbow filled to the rafters fit to bust full house full up mob scene sardined sold out standing room only stiff with thick thickset tight topped off up to here up to the hilt wall-to-wall
Antonyms
STRONGEST
deserted empty
STRONG
imprecise loose
WEAK
uncongested uncrowded unfilled
ADJECTIVE
full
Synonyms
STRONG
glutted gorged jaded sated satiate stuffed surfeited
WEAK
up to here
Antonyms
WEAK
empty hungry incomplete needy starved unsatisfied void
ADJECTIVE
many
Synonyms
WEAK
abounding alive with bounteous bountiful copious countless crowded divers frequent innumerable legion manifold multifarious multifold multiplied multitudinous myriad no end of numberless numerous plentiful populous prevalent rife several sundry teeming umpteen uncounted varied various
Antonyms
WEAK
few scarce
ADJECTIVE
numerous
Synonyms
STRONGEST
big diverse great large plentiful various
WEAK
copious infinite legion multifarious multitudinal multitudinous populous profuse rife scads several sundry thick umpteen voluminous zillion
Antonyms
STRONGEST
little miniature similar small tiny uniform unimportant
WEAK
deficient few lacking
ADJECTIVE
plentiful
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ample bountiful fertile generous productive prolific sufficient unlimited
WEAK
abounding appreciable bounteous bumper chock-full competent complete copious enough excessive extravagant exuberant flowing flush fruitful full fulsome improvident inexhaustible infinite large lavish liberal lush luxuriant no end overflowing plenteous plenty prodigal profuse replete rife superabundant superfluous swarming swimming teeming well-provided
Antonyms
STRONGEST
barren fruitless impotent insufficient lacking unfruitful unproductive wanting
WEAK
meager scarce
ADJECTIVE
plentiful/plenty
Synonyms
WEAK
abounding ample bounteous bountiful bumper chock-full complete copious enough excessive extravagant exuberant fertile flowing flush fruitful full fulsome generous improvident infinite large lavish liberal lush luxuriant overflowing plenteous prodigal profuse prolific replete rife sufficient superabundant superfluous swarming swimming teeming
Antonyms
WEAK
few lacking little needing rare scarce wanting

Example Sentences

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Pennsylvania was lousy with wildcatters, all of them convinced they’d struck it rich.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

In a place that’s lousy with “Real Housewives” and cast members from “Shahs of Sunset” and “Bling Empire,” showing who’s boss is crucial.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

“OF: RDG” is classic recent Ritchie: star-studded, snarky, and ultimately grating, lousy with weird glasses and bad accents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Elon Musk’s stint as Twitter’s CEO has been lousy with chaos and riddled with dozens of weird backtracks.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2023

Hartford and Providence and such are big cities, bustling with manufacturing, lousy with traffic.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.