impacted

1. 1.

   wedged or packed in together

   “an impacted tooth”

   Synonymswedged

   Similarcompact

Questions about impacted

What does impacted mean?

impacted means "wedged or packed in together".

How many syllables are in impacted?

impacted has 3 syllables: im-pac-ted. The stress falls on "im". In IPA it is /ˈɪmˌpæktɪd/.

What is another word for impacted?

Close synonyms include wedged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impacted a common word?

impacted is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.