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filled

When something is filled, it's crowded, packed, or stuffed. A filled donut is crammed with either jelly or delicious custard.

A filled concert venue is at capacity, with every single ticket sold and just about every seat taken. And a filled calendar doesn't have any time for more appointment slots. This adjective is sometimes used interchangeably with "full," but it's more likely to describe a food item that's stuffed full of some kind of filling, from filled pasta shells to filled pastries, or to substitute for "fulfilled," like your filled online order for cat food.

Definitions of filled
  1. adjective
    (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
    “theirs was a house filled with laughter”
    “a large hall filled with rows of desks”
    “fog-filled air”
    synonyms:
    full
    containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
  2. adjective
    (of time) taken up
    “well-filled hours”
    synonyms:
    occupied
    held or filled or in use
  3. adjective
    of purchase orders that have been filled
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    antonyms:
    unfilled
    of purchase orders that have not been filled
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