Skip to content
GREMockTests
GRE vocabulary

teeming

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore T words

swarming with or full of a great number of things

Start a free GRE mock test 39 minutes · free · instant score
In a sentence

Teeming in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing teeming in a sentence.

The tide pool was teeming with crabs, anemones, and tiny fish.

Synonyms
swarmingaboundingbrimming
Antonyms
emptybarrendeserted

Quick GRE check

Question 1 of 3

3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?

Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

Select the word that best completes the sentence.

Common questions

Questions about “teeming”

Teeming (adjective) means swarming with or full of a great number of things
Here is teeming used in an example sentence: "The tide pool was teeming with crabs, anemones, and tiny fish."
Common synonyms for teeming include swarming, abounding, brimming.
Antonyms of teeming include empty, barren, deserted.
Teeming is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

See these words the way the GRE tests them.

Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.