wad

1. 1.

   compress into a wad

   “wad paper into the box”

   Synonymspackbundlecompact

   Broaderarrange

   Narrowerpuddle
2. 2.

   crowd or pack to capacity

   “the theater was jampacked”

   Synonymsjamjampackramchock upcram

   Broaderstuff

Other forms of wad

plural

wads·

past tense or participle

wadded

present participle

wadding

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wad

What does wad mean?

wad means "a small mass of soft material". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wad?

wad has 1 syllable: wad. In IPA it is /ˈwɑd/.

What is another word for wad?

Close synonyms include batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal. 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 wad a common word?

wad is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.