Antonyms for congestion
kənˈdʒɛs tʃəncon·ges·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. congestion

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation

   Synonyms:
   congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora

Matched Categories

1. • Crowding
   • Symptom

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. congestionnoun

   excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part

   Synonyms:
   over-crowding

2. congestion, over-crowdingnoun

   excessive crowding

   "traffic congestion"

   Synonyms:
   over-crowding

How to use congestion in a sentence?

1. Allen Sills:

   Symptom reporting is more important than ever, vaccinated people may have very different symptoms. Last year, for those who had COVID-19, they might have a high fever and chills and trouble breathing... and with the vaccination they may have only nasal congestion or a mild sore throat or a headache or fatigue.

2. Carlo Ratti:

   If you can actually reschedule cities thanks to the newfound flexibility following the pandemic there could be ... a big impact, one of the tragedies of cities in the 20th century was really having everything synchronised, so you had peak hour, rush hour, and then there was a lot of congestion.

3. Anthony Foxx:

   We are on a long path. We didn't get to this level of congestion in our cities overnight.

4. Olivier Jankovec:

   The immediate impact would be unprecedented levels of congestion and flight disruptions, with potential spillover effects across the entire European airport network.

5. Parash Jain:

   If anything, unwinding of the backlog initiated following congestion in Yantian terminal could take months, as the onset of the peak season will mean demand will only further increase.

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