loaded en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈləʊ.dəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈloʊ.dɪd/ (General-American)
Etymology
From load + -ed.
Meanings
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Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
[…]the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ;[…].
1812, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 8, page 118:What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.
1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, Africa:What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy, page 15:With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;
1737, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 7, page 780:1888, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter (translator), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture, […] and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.
Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
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(of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
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(colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
And my God, doesn’t it feel good? For a few moments to think of the country as the place of sacred ointments and special spoons, grand cathedrals and epically wealthy, exquisitely dressed people. In that moment we can see our own country in their image: a country that is sober, benign and loaded.
2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola”
1995, “Common People”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
Is he loaded? “Yeah!” How much is he worth? “I don’t know, but I could probably never be poor again. When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much. I don’t know what I’ve done with my money. […]”
2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
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(slang) Drunk.
By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.
‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 141:
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Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
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(also, figuratively) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
They played awhile to Corinius’s great content, for at every throw he won and the other’s purse waxed light. But at this eleventh stanza the son of Corund cried out that the dice of Corinius were loaded.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 32–33:If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.
1997, Joe Slovo, Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography, page 80:Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies […].
2009, Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes, page 224:The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.
1996, Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex, page 49:
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(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
At a press conference held in a Valencia hotel two weeks ago, Jesús “Suso” García Pitarch was asked why Peter Lim had bought the city’s football team in the first place. It was a loaded question, one supporters have pondered often over the last couple of years, and the answer, or the lack of one, felt loaded as well.
2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:
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(of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.
2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style, page 30:"Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
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(of an item offered for sale, qualifier:especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
She went all out; her new car is loaded.
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(colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
loaded potato wedges
loaded fries
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Weighted with lead or similar.
a loaded cane or whip
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more loaded | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most loaded | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonloaded · loaded question · loaded march · spring-loaded camming device · bases loaded · spring-loaded mode · locked and loaded · spring-loaded · loaded word · loaded language · loaded dice · fully-loaded · coloaded · underloaded · loaded for bear · unloaded · front-loaded
Synonyms
lubed up · out of sight · feeling no pain · adrip · worse for wear · tuned · inebriate · crocked · inter pocula · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · bingoed · befuddled · lathered · smashed · overrefreshed · jaked · canned · pickled · parlatic · blue · mad with it · corned · dead drunk · three sheets to the wind · loose · stotious · well-to-do · besotted · a sheet in the wind's eye · bladdered · inebriated · whittled · wobbly · tight · a sheet in the wind · bottled · clobbered · fuckfaced · high as a kite · liquory · strut · blind · tanked · shicker · beliquored · slizzard · tight as a tick · ebriose · soused · how came you so · mabok · groggy · aled up · inebrious · charged · upper crust · sloppy drunk · bungfu · muggy · blasted · have drink taken · snozzled · tipsy · laden · woozy · fuzzy-minded · cockeyed · ripped · zonked · schloshed · lubed · blewed · rich as Croesus · rolling in it · cup-shotten · ginned · temulentive · trashed · monged · rolling · Brahms · cut · skunked · plowed · looped · comfortably off · fresh · overcome · wazzocked · drunk as a piper · fershnickered · scuttered · ploughed · out of one's head · pixilated · twisted · high · half polluted · well off · full · gesuip · sodden · spanceled · cunted · toping · tanked up · stuffed · stoned · shitty · fuddled · lushed · blocked · hooched up · sprung · disguised · sozzly · slarmied · potshot · rubbered · fat · snockered · langered · muddled · legless · wellied · jarred · Oliver Twist · of means · juiced up · oofy · floored · temulent · nimptopsical · pregnant · larruped · tilted · wet · razzled · deluxe · squiffed · worse for liquor · on the ran tan · in liquor · rolling in dough · in one's cups · wazzed · blind drunk · minted · in the bag · flush · fixed · well-endowed · flooey · Adrian Quist · lashed · fou · shedded · scammered · pie-eyed · bibulous · stoated · newted · bedrunken · fluted · crapulous · sauced · juiced · drunked up · rigged · drunk · loaded · soaken · nappy · obfuscated · gattered · in one's altitudes · muzzy · potted · hosed · tippled · shickered · kaylied · throwed · fuzzy-headed · sozzled · blottoed · bibacious · out of it · maggot · three sheets in the wind · maudlin · Brahms and Liszt · shellacked · fap · liquored up · budgy · off one's tits · blootered · mortalled · packed · raddled · zooted · cup-shot · munted · fried · arseholed · lubricated · burlin' · lit · ripe · in the drink · souped-up · crammed · hooted · snuffy · well-oiled · elephant's trunk · stewed · plastered · schnockered · soshed · top-heavy · flustered · fuckered up · screwed · sotted · stinking · spannered · off one's head · half seas over · fluthered · faced · lamped · hoovered · cocked · quisby · ebriated · wealthy · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · mullered · binned · oiled up · sloshed · blitzed · bollocksed · destroyed · besotten · elephant's · lash · primed · mortal · wrecked · impaired · kettled · out of one's box · moneyed · steamboats · drunken · insobrietous · rolling · spiffed · filthy rich · MWI · hazed · gassed · twatfaced · overtaken · zotzed · bosky · pounded · groggified · kisky · insober · gee-eyed · withered · bow-legged wi' brass · slammed · all mops and brooms · splashed · leading · puggled · freighted · flushed · zoned · spongy · four sheets in the wind · sauced up · loaded · toasted · langers · primed · hog-whimpering · weighted · stonkered · mashed · bevvied · sewed up · messed up · well-heeled · moneybags · Oliver · Mozart and Liszt · maggoted · swacked · glorious · hammered · honkers · sottish · top-heavy with drink · half cut · ratfaced · medicated · rich · bombed · paralytic · oiled · loopy · gished · out of one's face · obliviated · armed · frosted · boozy · ossified · off one's box · polluted · snookered · tired and emotional · bungalowed · wastey · zorched · half lit
Translations (110)
cs obtěžkaný (burdened by load) · cs zazobaný (slang: having wealth) · is hlaðinn (burdened by load) · yi שיכּור ווי לוט (slang: drunk) · hu töltött ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · de blau (slang: drunk) · de schwerreich (slang: having wealth) · de gefärbt ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · de verfänglich ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · pl arcybogaty (slang: having wealth) · ru нагру́женный (burdened by load) · de beschwipst (squiffy) (slang: drunk) · cs prachatý (slang: having wealth) · ru провокацио́нный ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · sv ledande ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · la onustus (burdened by load) · nl zat (slang: drunk) · ru гружёный (burdened by load) · de suggestiv ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · sv drucken (slang: drunk) · ru бухо́й (slang: drunk) · tr zengin (slang: having wealth) · tr para babası (slang: having wealth) · de geladen haben (slang: drunk) · el ματσωμένος (slang: having wealth) · fi rikas (slang: having wealth) · sv tät (slang: having wealth) · sv riggad ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · yi פֿול (baseball: when there is a runner at each of the three bases) · fi see also ajolähtö (baseball: when there is a runner at each of the three bases) · de beschwert (burdened by load) · sk naložený (burdened by load) · fi täynnä (baseball: when there is a runner at each of the three bases) · fi kaikilla herkuilla ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · fr pété (slang: drunk) · fr pipé ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · cs nabitý ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · ru ужра́тый (slang: drunk) · pl przebogaty (slang: having wealth) · de exklusiv ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · ga lódáilte ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · cs cinknutý ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · tr varlıklı (slang: having wealth) · de belastet ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · de gezinkt ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · yi פֿאַלש ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · yi שווימען אין געלט (slang: having wealth) · ru нажра́вшийся (slang: drunk) · nl schatrijk (slang: having wealth) · nl beladen (burdened by load) · de gut betucht (slang: having wealth) · pt viciado ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · fr bourré (slang: drunk) · ru заря́женный ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · fr beurré (slang: drunk) · fi johdatteleva ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · fr pété de thunes (slang: having wealth) · bg пиян (slang: drunk) · cs sugestivní ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · fr lourd de sens ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · nl geladen ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · is hlaðinn ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · hu megrakott (burdened by load) · ro încărcat (burdened by load) · de schwer beladen (burdened by load) · ru бога́тенький (slang: having wealth) · yi טויט שיכּור (slang: drunk) · sv packad (slang: drunk) · bg подправен ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · fi hyvin varusteltu ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · cmn 趁錢 /趁钱 (slang: having wealth) · cs naložený (burdened by load) · fr chargé (burdened by load) · ru при де́ньга́х (slang: having wealth) · de protzig ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · bg натоварен (burdened by load) · bg зареден ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · pl nabity ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · fr plein de thunes (slang: having wealth) · es forrado (slang: having wealth) · fi ladattu ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · fi lastattu (burdened by load) · de beladen (burdened by load) · sv laddad ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · fr pipé ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · ga luchtaithe (burdened by load) · fi painotettu ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · nl geladen ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · yi צדדימדיק ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · de scharf ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · yi פּניותדיק ((gaming, of dice, also used figuratively) biased) · cs významově zabarvený ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · de geladen ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · fi kännissä (slang: drunk) · bg богат (slang: having wealth) · de steinreich (slang: having wealth) · de tendenziös ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · de pompös ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · sk nabitý ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · ru пья́ный (slang: drunk) · sv laddad ((of a projectile weapon) armed) · de stockbesoffen (slang: drunk) · cs zatížený (burdened by load) · de stinkreich (slang: having wealth) · es cargado (burdened by load) · de üppig ausgestattet ((of an item offered for sale) with numerous options) · fr chargé de sens ((of a word or phrase) having strong connotations) · ru некорре́ктный ((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) · sk ožratý (slang: drunk) · fr chargé ((of a projectile weapon) armed)