loaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊdɪd/
ipa: /ˈləʊdɪd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊdɪd
Forms: form: more loaded
form: most loaded
Etymology: From load + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
text: 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 ;
ref: 1737, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 7, page 780:
text: […]the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ;[…].
ref: 1812, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 8, page 118:
text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, Africa:
text: What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
ref: 2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy, page 15:
synonyms: crammed
laden
packed
stuffed
glosses: Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
examples: text: No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
synonyms: armed
primed
glosses: Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
raw_tags: of a projectile weapon
examples: text: He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
text: She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola”
ref: 1995, “Common People”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:
text: 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. […]”
ref: 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bow-legged wi' brass
word: comfortably off
word: filthy rich
word: loaded
word: minted
word: moneyed
word: moneybags
word: of means
word: oofy
word: rich
word: rich as Croesus
word: rolling
word: rolling in dough
word: rolling in it
word: upper crust
word: wealthy
word: well-endowed
word: well-heeled
word: well off
word: well-to-do
glosses: Possessing great wealth.
examples: text: ‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.
synonyms: word: Adrian Quist
word: adrip
word: aled up
word: all mops and brooms
word: arseholed
word: a sheet in the wind
word: a sheet in the wind's eye
word: bedrunken
word: befuddled
word: beliquored
word: besotted
word: besotten
word: bevvied
word: bibacious
word: bibulous
word: binned
word: bingoed
word: bladdered
word: blasted
word: blewed
word: blind
word: blind drunk
word: blitzed
word: blocked
word: blootered
word: blottoed
word: blue
word: bollocksed
word: bombed
word: boozy
word: bosky
word: bottled
word: Brahms
word: Brahms and Liszt
word: budgy
word: bungalowed
word: bungfu
word: burlin'
word: canned
word: clobbered
word: corned
word: cocked
word: cockeyed
word: crapulous
word: crocked
word: cunted
word: cup-shot
word: cup-shotten
word: cut
word: dead drunk
word: destroyed
word: disguised
word: drunk
word: drunk as a piper
word: drunked up
word: drunken
word: ebriated
word: ebriose
word: elephant's
word: elephant's trunk
word: elevated
word: faced
word: fap
word: fershnickered
word: flooey
word: floored
word: flush
word: flushed
word: flustered
word: fluted
word: fluthered
word: feeling no pain
word: fou
word: four sheets in the wind
word: fresh
word: fried
word: frosted
word: fuckered up
word: fuckfaced
word: fuddled
word: full
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gassed
word: gattered
word: gee-eyed
word: gesuip
word: ginned
word: gished
word: glorious
word: groggified
word: groggy
word: half polluted
word: half cut
word: half lit
word: half seas over
word: hammered
word: have drink taken
word: have the sun in one's eyes
word: hazed
word: high as a Georgia pine
word: high as a kite
word: high
word: hog-whimpering
word: honkers
word: hooched up
word: hooted
word: hoovered
word: hosed
word: how came you so
word: impaired
word: in liquor
word: in one's altitudes
word: in one's cups
word: in the bag
word: in the drink
word: inebriate
word: inebriated
word: inebrious
word: insober
word: insobrietous
word: inter pocula
word: jaked
word: jarred
word: juiced
word: juiced up
word: kaylied
word: kisky
word: lamped
word: langered
word: langers
word: larruped
word: lash
word: lashed
word: lathered
word: legless
word: liquored up
word: liquory
word: lit
word: loaded
word: looped
word: loopy
word: loose
word: lubed
word: lubed up
word: lubricated
word: lushed
word: mad with it
word: maggot
word: maggoted
word: mashed
word: maudlin
word: medicated
word: messed up
word: monged
word: mortal
word: mortalled
word: Mozart and Liszt
word: muddled
word: muggy
word: mullered
word: munted
word: muzzy
word: MWI
word: nappy
word: newted
word: nimptopsical
word: obfuscated
word: obliviated
word: off one's box
word: off one's head
word: off one's tits
word: oiled
word: oiled up
word: Oliver
word: Oliver Twist
word: on the ran tan
word: ossified
word: out of it
word: out of one's box
word: out of one's face
word: out of one's head
word: out of sight
word: overcome
word: overrefreshed
word: overtaken
word: paralytic
word: parlatic
word: pickled
word: pie-eyed
word: pixilated
word: plastered
word: ploughed
word: plowed
word: polluted
word: potshot
word: potted
word: pounded
word: primed
word: puggled
word: quisby
word: raddled
word: rat-arsed
word: ratted
word: razzled
word: ripe
word: ripped
word: rolling
word: rubbered
word: sauced
word: sauced up
word: scammered
word: schloshed
word: schnockered
word: screwed
word: scuttered
word: sewed up
word: shedded
word: shellacked
word: shicker
word: shickered
word: shitty
word: skunked
word: slammed
word: slarmied
word: slizzard
word: sloppy drunk
word: sloshed
word: smashed
word: snockered
word: snookered
word: snozzled
word: snuffy
word: soaken
word: sodden
word: sotted
word: sottish
word: souped-up
word: soused
word: sozzled
word: sozzly
word: spanceled
word: spannered
word: spiffed
word: splashed
word: spongy
word: sprung
word: squiffed
word: steamboats
word: stewed
word: stinking
word: stinko
word: stoated
word: stoned
word: stonkered
word: stotious
word: strut
word: swacked
word: tanked
word: tanked up
word: temulent
word: temulentive
word: three sheets in the wind
word: three sheets to the wind
word: throwed
word: tight as a tick
word: tight
word: tilted
word: tippled
word: tipsy
word: tired and emotional
word: toasted
word: top-heavy
word: top-heavy with drink
word: toping
word: trashed
word: tuned
word: twatfaced
word: twisted
word: wastey
word: wazzed
word: wazzocked
word: well-oiled
word: wellied
word: wet
word: whittled
word: withered
word: wobbly
word: woozy
word: worse for liquor
word: worse for wear
word: wrecked
word: zoned
word: zonked
word: zooted
word: zorched
word: zotzed
glosses: Drunk.
examples: text: It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
examples: text: He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
text: 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.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 32–33:
text: 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.
ref: 1996, Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex, page 49:
text: 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.
ref: 1997, Joe Slovo, Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography, page 80:
text: 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 […].
ref: 2009, Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes, page 224:
topics: dice
games
synonyms: fixed
rigged
weighted
glosses: Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
examples: text: That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
text: 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.
ref: 2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: leading
glosses: Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
raw_tags: of a question
examples: text: "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
text: 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.
ref: 2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style, page 30:
synonyms: charged
freighted
pregnant
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase
examples: text: She went all out; her new car is loaded.
synonyms: deluxe
qualifier: especially an automobile
glosses: Equipped with numerous options.
raw_tags: of an item offered for sale
examples: text: loaded fries
text: loaded potato wedges
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
examples: text: a loaded cane or whip
glosses: Weighted with lead or similar.
Derived terms: bases loaded
coloaded
front-loaded
fully-loaded
loaded dice
loaded for bear
loaded language
loaded march
loaded question
loaded word
locked and loaded
nonloaded
spring-loaded
spring-loaded camming device
spring-loaded mode
underloaded
unloaded